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Date: Tue, 7 Aug 2018 18:39:41 +0200
From: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Yuki Machida <machida.yuki@jp.fujitsu.com>
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Subject: Re: Backport Security Fix for CVE-2018-13095 to v4.14
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On Tue, Aug 07, 2018 at 03:17:53PM +0200, Greg KH wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 06, 2018 at 12:01:20PM +0900, Yuki Machida wrote:
> > Hi Greg,
> > 
> > I conformed that a patch of CVE-2018-13095 not applied at v4.14.60.
> > Could you please apply a patch for 4.14-stable ?
> 
> It does not apply cleanly at all, can you please provide a working
> backport that you have tested?

It also breaks the build in 4.17.y, so I've had to drop it there as
well.

Are you sure this fixes something that you care about?  Why are people
creating random CVEs for things that no one seems to actually backport?

thanks,

greg k-h