Hi,
Commit 8e205f779d1443a94b5ae81aa359cb535dd3021e
("shmem: fix faulting into a hole, not taking i_mutex")
and commit b1a366500bd537b50c3aad26dc7df083ec03a448
("shmem: fix splicing from a hole while it's punched")
have now gone into Linus's tree for 3.16, marked for stable 3.1+;
but the first of those depends upon (and fixes) an earlier 3.16 commit,
not marked for stable at the time because I didn't think it mattered
much beyond Trinity fuzzing - but became more significant once it was
tagged with CVE-2014-4171:
commit f00cdc6df7d7cfcabb5b740911e6788cb0802bdb
("shmem: fix faulting into a hole while it's punched")
Please add f00cdc6df7d7 to your stable queues just before 8e205f779d14
when you're ready, then I won't get quite so many "failed to apply"
mails in a few days time!
I have already checked application to the kernel.org stable trees:
f00cdc6df7d7 and 8e205f779d14 should be good as is back to 3.10.49;
but b1a366500bd5 gets a reject on 3.14.13, so I'll need to supply
custom versions prepared for that and earlier releases - as I must
for all three on 3.4.99 and 3.2.61 (anything before 3.5 involves
more partial backporting).
I'm assuming that it's easiest if I wait for your "failed to apply"
mails, and then respond to each with the version I've prepared: if
you would prefer me to send them in advance, please let me know.
(As Vlastimil observed, there's a danger in fixing up the reject
in b1a366500bd5: when the first hunk is rejected, the second and
third get applied in the wrong place, so better use my versions.)
I've not actually built the Canonical trees, but a glance at them
suggests they will all be good with the 3.10.49 one for b1a366500bd5.
Thanks,
Hugh
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