On Wed, Mar 25, 2015 at 11:58:46AM +0100, Alexander Holler wrote: > Am 25.03.2015 um 11:15 schrieb Greg Kroah-Hartman: > >On Wed, Mar 25, 2015 at 10:23:27AM +0100, Alexander Holler wrote: > >>Am 25.03.2015 um 09:33 schrieb Greg Kroah-Hartman: > > >>>Is there a specific patch that is in Linus's tree that fixes this issue > >>>that I should be applying to the stable tree? > >> > >>No specific one. The changes of this patch were discarded by other patches > >>in Linus tree which fixed other problems of gadgetfs too. > >> > >>Besides that the solution for this one specific patch is a one-liner, I'll > >>give a short overview: > >> > >>- gadgetfs is already unusable since 3.16 (even with this patch) because > >>(p)read/(p)write doesn't work (fixed with 4.0) > >>- the problem this patch fixes is unlikely to be hit because glibc doesn't > >>use the Linux aio-syscall, but pread/pwrite, which means someone has to use > >>a special lib and not aio(7) to end up at the syscall the patch in question > >>fixes. > >>- there aren't that many users of gadgetfs > >> > >>No idea if you want to apply or backport the whole series found in Al Viros > >>vfs.git/gadgetfs. > > > >As this has been broken since 3.16, and no one has taken the time to fix > >it since then, it's not really an issue here, people can just use 4.0 if > >they want it. > > Just a hint I think which should be kept in mind: Debian still uses > something below 3.16, which very likely is the reason why nobody has hit > (and examined) these bugs before. Not all the world is Debian :) -- 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