From: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: cve@kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Lee Jones <lee@kernel.org>
Subject: Re: CVE-2023-52496: mtd: maps: vmu-flash: Fix the (mtd core) switch to ref counters
Date: Fri, 8 Mar 2024 10:27:30 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <2024030813-subscribe-smasher-aeca@gregkh> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Zerjs8hlMJOXt0Sv@tiehlicka>
On Fri, Mar 08, 2024 at 11:08:51AM +0100, Michal Hocko wrote:
> On Thu 29-02-24 15:52:56, Lee Jones wrote:
> > Description
> > ===========
> >
> > In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
> >
> > mtd: maps: vmu-flash: Fix the (mtd core) switch to ref counters
> >
> > While switching to ref counters for track mtd devices use, the vmu-flash
> > driver was forgotten. The reason for reading the ref counter seems
> > debatable, but let's just fix the build for now.
>
> Do we really consider build fixes as CVE?
Nope, good catch! We reviewed this one wrong, now revoked, thanks for
the review.
greg k-h
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2024-03-08 10:08 ` CVE-2023-52496: mtd: maps: vmu-flash: Fix the (mtd core) switch to ref counters Michal Hocko
2024-03-08 10:27 ` Greg KH [this message]
2024-03-08 10:26 ` Robert Frohl
2024-03-08 16:02 ` Greg KH
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