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Date: Fri, 4 Aug 2017 12:44:03 -0700
From: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Sumit Semwal <sumit.semwal@linaro.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH for-4.4 0/3] Stable candidates from Ubuntu Xenial 4.4-lts
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On Mon, Jul 31, 2017 at 11:23:28PM +0530, Sumit Semwal wrote:
> Hi Greg,
> 
> While looking at the Ubuntu Xenial patches, I came across two patches from
> Linus, written last year around 4.6 time frame, that are used as a fix for
> CVE-2015-8944. The patches look stable-worthy to me, but were not backported
> to 4.4, hence sending for your review.
> 
> Also, another patch for vlan that looks useful, if you could please review and
> merge to your stable tree?
> 
> These have been build-tested with x86 and arm64 allmodconfig. They apply
> cleanly on top of 4.4.79, and are present in 4.9.y+.

Now applied, with the correct git commit id...

thanks,

greg k-h