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From: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Miles Chen <miles.chen@mediatek.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: backport a patch for Linux 3.18
Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2017 07:58:18 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170831055818.GA23168@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1504064056.30912.21.camel@mtkswgap22>

On Wed, Aug 30, 2017 at 11:34:16AM +0800, Miles Chen wrote:
> Hi reviewers,
> 
> I suggest to backport a commit to Linux 3.18 stable tree.
> Reason: KASAN reports a out-of-bound write issue when a large size
> allocation is made from drivers through user-space.
> 
> 
> commit: 67a2e213e7e937c41c52ab5bc46bf3f4de469f6e
> subject: mm: cma: fix incorrect type conversion for size during dma
> allocation
> kernel version to apply to: Linux 3.18

Now applied, along with a number of other cma fixes that 3.18 really
should have as well (that were dependancies of this patch in order to
apply "cleanly".)

thanks,

greg k-h

      reply	other threads:[~2017-08-31  5:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-08-30  3:34 backport a patch for Linux 3.18 Miles Chen
2017-08-31  5:58 ` Greg KH [this message]

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