On 07/24/2014 03:17 AM, 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!
Thanks, I now applied them to 3.12 with one manual tuning (see the other
mail).
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js
suse labs
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