Re: three CVE-2014-4171 fixes

[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]

 



-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
Hash: SHA1

   Hello Hugh, all

+-- On Wed, 23 Jul 2014, Hugh Dickins wrote --+
| 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!
|

  Thank you so much for the update and for fixing the issue. I saw it was 
quite exhausting efforts over so many days. Really appreciate it.

Thank you!
- --
Prasad J Pandit / Red Hat Product Security Team
47AF CE69 3A90 54AA 9045 1053 DD13 3D32 FE5B 041F

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
Version: GnuPG v1
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=9VP9
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in
the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html




[Index of Archives]     [Linux Kernel]     [Kernel Development Newbies]     [Linux USB Devel]     [Video for Linux]     [Linux Audio Users]     [Yosemite Hiking]     [Linux Kernel]     [Linux SCSI]