From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: Ian Kent <raven@themaw.net>
Cc: linux-fsdevel <linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org>,
Tomas Bortoli <tomasbortoli@gmail.com>,
autofs mailing list <autofs@vger.kernel.org>,
Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] autofs - fix slab out of bounds read in getname_kernel()
Date: Thu, 5 Jul 2018 16:58:42 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180705165842.856d66594bf695f4f688ccfa@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <153060031527.26631.18306637892746301555.stgit@pluto.themaw.net>
On Tue, 03 Jul 2018 14:45:15 +0800 Ian Kent <raven@themaw.net> wrote:
> Initial patch contributed by Tomas Bortoli.
>
> The autofs subsystem does not check that the "path" parameter is
> present for all cases where it is required when it is passed in
> via the "param" struct.
>
> In particular it isn't checked for the AUTOFS_DEV_IOCTL_OPENMOUNT_CMD
> ioctl command.
>
> To solve it, modify validate_dev_ioctl() function to check that a
> path has been provided for ioctl commands that require it.
>
> Signed-off-by: Tomas Bortoli <tomasbortoli@gmail.com>
> Signed-off-by: Ian Kent <raven@themaw.net>
> Reported-by: syzbot+60c837b428dc84e83a93@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
So who is the primary author of this? I'm assuming "Tomas" from the
signoff order?
The way of signifying this is to put the other author's From: line right
at the top of changelog.
I assume this is a root-only bug, so we don't need to backport the fix?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-07-05 23:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-07-03 6:45 [PATCH] autofs - fix slab out of bounds read in getname_kernel() Ian Kent
2018-07-05 23:58 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2018-07-06 1:08 ` Ian Kent
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