From: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Please backport: vfs: deny copy_file_range() for non regular files
Date: Mon, 6 Nov 2017 09:43:53 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20171106084353.GB8571@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20171010180607.GF747@kroah.com>
On Tue, Oct 10, 2017 at 08:06:07PM +0200, Greg KH wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 07, 2017 at 09:19:33PM -0400, Theodore Ts'o wrote:
> > Hi, please cherry pick the following upstream commit:
> >
> > 11cbfb10775a: vfs: deny copy_file_range() for non regular files
> >
> > to 3.18, 4.1, 4.4, and 4.9 LTS stable kernels.
>
> It does not apply to the 3.18 or 4.4 stable kernels. It worked for 4.9.
> Don't care about 4.1 :)
>
> Do you have a working backport anywhere?
To follow up with this, copy_file_ranges() showed up in the 4.5 kernel
release, so how is this a problem for older kernels than that?
thanks,
greg k-h
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2017-10-08 1:19 Please backport: vfs: deny copy_file_range() for non regular files Theodore Ts'o
2017-10-10 18:06 ` Greg KH
2017-11-06 8:43 ` Greg KH [this message]
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