From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752395AbbCYLPa (ORCPT ); Wed, 25 Mar 2015 07:15:30 -0400 Received: from h1446028.stratoserver.net ([85.214.92.142]:33637 "EHLO mail.ahsoftware.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752278AbbCYLPX (ORCPT ); Wed, 25 Mar 2015 07:15:23 -0400 Message-ID: <551298C5.3070200@ahsoftware.de> Date: Wed, 25 Mar 2015 12:15:17 +0100 From: Alexander Holler User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.5.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Greg Kroah-Hartman CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@vger.kernel.org, Al Viro Subject: Re: [PATCH 3.19 091/123] gadgetfs: use-after-free in ->aio_read() References: <20150324154423.655554012@linuxfoundation.org> <20150324154428.117696639@linuxfoundation.org> <55119F29.5030308@ahsoftware.de> <20150324175850.GA7215@kroah.com> <5511A7C0.2000807@ahsoftware.de> <20150325083353.GC28204@kroah.com> <55127E8F.6010007@ahsoftware.de> <20150325101507.GA20259@kroah.com> <551294E6.5020609@ahsoftware.de> <20150325110825.GA23629@kroah.com> In-Reply-To: <20150325110825.GA23629@kroah.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Am 25.03.2015 um 12:08 schrieb Greg Kroah-Hartman: > On Wed, Mar 25, 2015 at 11:58:46AM +0100, Alexander Holler wrote: >>> 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 :) > Sure, but e.g. the already small group of users of gadgetfs seem to use debian based distributions. For reasons I can understand (e.g. they aren't hit by the (new) bugs in gadgetfs. ;)