Re: [PATCH 5.10 60/76] f2fs: fix to do sanity check on last xattr entry in __f2fs_setxattr()

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On Tue, Jan 04, 2022 at 01:10:59PM -0800, Jaegeuk Kim wrote:
> On 01/04, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > On Tue, Jan 04, 2022 at 10:56:28AM +0100, Salvatore Bonaccorso wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > > 
> > > On Tue, Jan 04, 2022 at 05:29:30PM +0800, Chao Yu wrote:
> > > > On 2022/1/4 5:11, Salvatore Bonaccorso wrote:
> > > > > Hi,
> > > > > 
> > > > > On Mon, Dec 27, 2021 at 04:31:15PM +0100, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > > > > > From: Chao Yu <chao@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > commit 5598b24efaf4892741c798b425d543e4bed357a1 upstream.
> > > > 
> > > > I've no idea.
> > > > 
> > > > I didn't add this line from v1 to v3:
> > > > 
> > > > https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20211211154059.7173-1-chao@xxxxxxxxxx/T/
> > > > https://lore.kernel.org/all/20211212071923.2398-1-chao@xxxxxxxxxx/T/
> > > > https://lore.kernel.org/all/20211212091630.6325-1-chao@xxxxxxxxxx/T/
> > > > 
> > > > Am I missing anything?
> > > 
> > > The line is added when a commit from "upstream" is added to the stable
> > > series to identify the upstream commit it is taken from for
> > > cherry-pick (or backport).
> > > 
> > > Strange so, that the fix is not in mainline actually yet.
> > 
> > I thought it was about to be sent to Linus.  Why has the f2fs maintainer
> > not sent a merge request to him to get this merged properly yet?
> 
> It's very surprising that -stable can cherry-pick non-upstreamed patches based
> on the stable maintainer's self assumption. Please wait for being upstreamed.

I normally do wait, but when a commit has a public CVE registered for
it, and it shows up in -next, I assume that it will be sent to Linus any
moment now.  Because of that, I made the call to take the patch then.

Odd that you wish to delay this, sorry I took it early.

greg k-h



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