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From: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Alessio Balsini <balsini@android.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	kernel-team@android.com, Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@mellanox.com>,
	Leon Romanovsky <leonro@mellanox.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4.9.y 4.14.y] IB/mlx5: Fix leaking stack memory to userspace
Date: Mon, 12 Aug 2019 16:23:16 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190812142316.GA12869@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190812105503.153253-1-balsini@android.com>

On Mon, Aug 12, 2019 at 11:55:03AM +0100, Alessio Balsini wrote:
> From: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@mellanox.com>
> 
> commit 0625b4ba1a5d4703c7fb01c497bd6c156908af00 upstream.
> 
> mlx5_ib_create_qp_resp was never initialized and only the first 4 bytes
> were written.
> 
> Fixes: 41d902cb7c32 ("RDMA/mlx5: Fix definition of mlx5_ib_create_qp_resp")

This commit only showed up in the following kernel releases:
	4.17 4.18.7 4.19

so why is this "fix" commit needed in anything older than 4.17?

That's why I did not backport it to older kernels, as I do not think it
is needed there.  Do you?

thanks,

greg k-h

  reply	other threads:[~2019-08-12 14:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-08-12 10:48 [PATCH 3.18.y] IB/mlx5: Fix leaking stack memory to userspace Alessio Balsini
2019-08-12 10:51 ` [PATCH 4.4.y] " Alessio Balsini
2019-08-12 10:55   ` [PATCH 4.9.y 4.14.y] " Alessio Balsini
2019-08-12 14:23     ` Greg KH [this message]
2019-08-13  9:27       ` Alessio Balsini
2019-08-13 10:01         ` Greg KH

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