On Wed, Jul 23, 2014 at 06:17:50PM -0700, Hugh Dickins wrote:
> 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.
You should have my "failed to apply" emails now, thanks for warning me
about this and this report, much appreciated.
thanks,
greg k-h
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