Re: Backport fix for CVE-2023-2176 (8d037973 and 0e158630) to v6.1

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On Thu, Feb 29, 2024 at 12:13 AM Brennan Lamoreaux
<brennan.lamoreaux@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > If you provide a working backport of that commit, we will be glad to
> > apply it.  As-is, it does not apply at all, which is why it was never
> > added to the 6.1.y tree.
>
> Oh, apologies for requesting if they don't apply. I'd be happy to submit
> working backports for these patches, but I am not seeing any issues applying/building
> the patches on my machine... Both patches in sequence applied directly and my
> local build was successful.
>
> This is the workflow I tested:
>
> git fetch https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git/ linux-6.1.y
> git checkout FETCH_HEAD
> git cherry-pick -x 8d037973d48c026224ab285e6a06985ccac6f7bf
> git cherry-pick -x 0e15863015d97c1ee2cc29d599abcc7fa2dc3e95
> make allyesconfig
> make
>
> Please let me know if I've made a mistake with the above commands, or if these patches aren't applicable
> for some other reason.
>

I guess the reason is:

8d037973d48c026224ab285e6a06985ccac6f7bf doesn't have "Fixes:" and is
not sent to stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx.
And 0e15863015d97c1ee2cc29d599abcc7fa2dc3e95 is to Fix
8d037973d48c026224ab285e6a06985ccac6f7bf,
so no need of 0e158 if 8d03 not backported to that particular branch.

- Ajay





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