From: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
To: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Fixing CVE-2017-12190 in v4.4.y
Date: Wed, 13 Dec 2017 18:11:22 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20171214021122.GA23510@roeck-us.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20171213213052.GA12442@roeck-us.net>
On Wed, Dec 13, 2017 at 01:30:52PM -0800, Guenter Roeck wrote:
> Hi Greg,
>
> I am looking into fixing CVE-2017-12190 in chromeos-4.4.
> The fix requires two patches, 95d78c28b5a85 ("fix unbalanced
> page refcounting in bio_map_user_iov") and 2b04e8f6bbb1 ("more
> bio_map_user_iov() leak fixes"). I noticed that the second patch
> has not been applied to linux-4.4.y. Is that due to the conflict,
> or was there a conscious decision not to apply it ?
>
> On a side note, is there a working archive for stable@vger.kernel.org ?
> The one listed at vger.kernel.org (gmane) doesn't work.
>
Never mind, the list archive is at http://www.spinics.net/lists/stable/,
and the patch wasn't applied due to a conflict [1]. I'll prepare a patch.
Guenter
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[1] https://www.spinics.net/lists/stable/msg193467.html
prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-12-14 2:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-12-13 21:30 Fixing CVE-2017-12190 in v4.4.y Guenter Roeck
2017-12-13 21:55 ` Willy Tarreau
2017-12-13 23:25 ` Guenter Roeck
2017-12-14 2:11 ` Guenter Roeck [this message]
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