From: "gregkh@linuxfoundation.org" <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: "Marciniszyn, Mike" <mike.marciniszyn@cornelisnetworks.com>
Cc: "Dalessandro, Dennis" <dennis.dalessandro@cornelisnetworks.com>,
"ivansprundel@ioactive.com" <ivansprundel@ioactive.com>,
"jgg@nvidia.com" <jgg@nvidia.com>,
"stable@vger.kernel.org" <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: FAILED: patch "[PATCH] IB/qib: Protect from buffer overflow in struct" failed to apply to 4.14-stable tree
Date: Wed, 3 Nov 2021 18:59:25 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <YYLN/RXehdox7308@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CH0PR01MB7153A85CF46D541FA76F1F95F28C9@CH0PR01MB7153.prod.exchangelabs.com>
On Wed, Nov 03, 2021 at 03:25:39PM +0000, Marciniszyn, Mike wrote:
> > From: gregkh@linuxfoundation.org <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
> > Sent: Saturday, October 30, 2021 8:58 AM
> > To: Marciniszyn, Mike <mike.marciniszyn@cornelisnetworks.com>;
> > Dalessandro, Dennis <dennis.dalessandro@cornelisnetworks.com>;
> > ivansprundel@ioactive.com; jgg@nvidia.com
> > Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
> > Subject: FAILED: patch "[PATCH] IB/qib: Protect from buffer overflow in
> > struct" failed to apply to 4.14-stable tree
> >
> >
> > The patch below does not apply to the 4.14-stable tree.
> > If someone wants it applied there, or to any other stable or longterm tree,
> > then please email the backport, including the original git commit id to
> > <stable@vger.kernel.org>.
> >
> > thanks,
> >
> > greg k-h
> >
>
> This patch requires a backport of upstream commit:
>
> 829ca44ecf60 ("IB/qib: Use struct_size() helper")
>
> That commit needs to me modified to include linux/overflow.h.
>
> The overflow patch then picks clean after that modified patch is present.
>
> How do you want to see that expressed in patches?
Can you please send a patch series for this that I can apply?
thanks,
greg k-h
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Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-10-30 12:57 FAILED: patch "[PATCH] IB/qib: Protect from buffer overflow in struct" failed to apply to 4.14-stable tree gregkh
2021-11-03 15:25 ` Marciniszyn, Mike
2021-11-03 17:59 ` gregkh [this message]
2021-11-03 18:00 ` Marciniszyn, Mike
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