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From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org, Wanpeng Li <wanpeng.li@hotmail.com>,
	Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Michael Jeanson <mjeanson@efficios.com>
Subject: Re: Commit missing in stable kernels: KVM: Fix stack-out-of-bounds read in write_mmio
Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2018 13:00:45 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180110120045.GD5514@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <765010266.49818.1515530956179.JavaMail.zimbra@efficios.com>

On Tue, Jan 09, 2018 at 08:49:16PM +0000, Mathieu Desnoyers wrote:
> Hi Greg,
> 
> commit e39d200fa "KVM: Fix stack-out-of-bounds read in write_mmio"
> is upstream in latest 4.15-rc tags, is also in long term
> 3.16.52+ and 3.2.97+ stable kernels, and in latest Fedora kernels,
> but is missing from 4.14, 4.9, 4.4, 4.1 stable branches.
> 
> I think the patch author missed the CC to stable@vger.kernel.org
> 
> It might be good to consider picking it up into the stable kernels
> to ensure long term stable and distro kernels don't diverge too much
> from more recent stable kernel branches.

Thanks, now picked up.

I wonder how it got into the 3.16 and 3.2 kernels :(

Also, always cc: stable@vger.kernel.org so that all of the stable
maintainers can see it, as I am not in charge of all of them (i.e.
4.1)

thanks,

greg k-h

      reply	other threads:[~2018-01-10 12:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-01-09 20:49 Commit missing in stable kernels: KVM: Fix stack-out-of-bounds read in write_mmio Mathieu Desnoyers
2018-01-10 12:00 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman [this message]

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