From: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Tyler Hicks <tyhicks@canonical.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [STABLE 4.14+][PATCH 0/2] IRDA fixes
Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2018 21:34:43 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180912193443.GB21563@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1536074645-14160-1-git-send-email-tyhicks@canonical.com>
On Tue, Sep 04, 2018 at 03:24:03PM +0000, Tyler Hicks wrote:
> Hello - Two issues were reported to Ubuntu in the IRDA subsystem. IRDA is no
> longer present in the upstream kernel as of 4.17 but the stable tree is
> affected.
Given that irda is broken in these trees, how can anyone even trigger
these bugs? How is the code being loaded by a normal user?
thanks,
greg k-h
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-09-13 0:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-09-04 15:24 [STABLE 4.14+][PATCH 0/2] IRDA fixes Tyler Hicks
2018-09-04 15:24 ` [PATCH 1/2] irda: Fix memory leak caused by repeated binds of irda socket Tyler Hicks
2018-09-12 19:35 ` Greg KH
2018-09-12 20:49 ` Tyler Hicks
2018-09-13 7:02 ` Greg KH
2018-09-04 15:24 ` [PATCH 2/2] irda: Only insert new objects into the global database via setsockopt Tyler Hicks
2018-09-12 19:34 ` Greg KH [this message]
2018-09-12 20:46 ` [STABLE 4.14+][PATCH 0/2] IRDA fixes Tyler Hicks
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