Re: Questions about backports of fixes for "CoW after fork() issue"

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On Wed, Jun 16, 2021 at 05:28:54PM +0800, Liu Shixin wrote:
> On 2021/6/16 15:11, Suren Baghdasaryan wrote:
> > On Tue, Jun 15, 2021 at 11:52 PM Greg Kroah-Hartman
> > <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >> On Wed, Jun 16, 2021 at 02:47:15PM +0800, Liu Shixin wrote:
> >>> Hi, Suren,
> >>>
> >>> I read the previous discussion about fixing CVE-2020-29374 in stable 4.14 and 4.19 in
> >>> <https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/20210401181741.168763-1-surenb@xxxxxxxxxx/>
> >>>
> >>> https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/20210401181741.168763-1-surenb@xxxxxxxxxx/
> >>>
> >>> And the results of the discussion is that you backports of 17839856fd58 for 4.14 and
> >>>
> >>> 4.19 kernels.
> >>>
> >>> But the bug about dax and strace in the discussion has not been solved, right? I don't
> >>>
> >>> find a conclusion on this issue, am I missing something? Does this problem still exist in
> >>>
> >>> the stable 4.14 and 4.19 kernel?
> > That is my understanding after discussions with Andrea but I did not
> > verify that myself. As Greg pointed out, the best way would be to try
> > it out.
> > Thanks,
> > Suren.
> >
> >> As the code is all there for you, can you just test them and see for
> >> yourself?
> >>
> >> thanks,
> >>
> >> greg k-h
> > .
> >
> Thank you both for replies. I have tested it in stable 4.19 kernel and the bug is existed as expected.

Great, can you provide a working backport of the patches needed to solve
this for 4.19 so that we can apply them?

thanks,

greg k-h



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