From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail-pf0-f169.google.com ([209.85.192.169]:34176 "EHLO mail-pf0-f169.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751508AbdLNCLZ (ORCPT ); Wed, 13 Dec 2017 21:11:25 -0500 Received: by mail-pf0-f169.google.com with SMTP id a90so2584344pfk.1 for ; Wed, 13 Dec 2017 18:11:25 -0800 (PST) Date: Wed, 13 Dec 2017 18:11:22 -0800 From: Guenter Roeck To: Greg Kroah-Hartman Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Fixing CVE-2017-12190 in v4.4.y Message-ID: <20171214021122.GA23510@roeck-us.net> References: <20171213213052.GA12442@roeck-us.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20171213213052.GA12442@roeck-us.net> Sender: stable-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: 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 --- [1] https://www.spinics.net/lists/stable/msg193467.html