From: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
To: cve@kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Lee Jones <lee@kernel.org>
Subject: Re: CVE-2023-52496: mtd: maps: vmu-flash: Fix the (mtd core) switch to ref counters
Date: Fri, 8 Mar 2024 11:08:51 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Zerjs8hlMJOXt0Sv@tiehlicka> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20240229155245.1571576-37-lee@kernel.org>
On Thu 29-02-24 15:52:56, Lee Jones wrote:
> Description
> ===========
>
> In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
>
> mtd: maps: vmu-flash: Fix the (mtd core) switch to ref counters
>
> While switching to ref counters for track mtd devices use, the vmu-flash
> driver was forgotten. The reason for reading the ref counter seems
> debatable, but let's just fix the build for now.
Do we really consider build fixes as CVE?
--
Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2024-03-08 10:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2024-02-29 15:52 CVE-2023-52496: mtd: maps: vmu-flash: Fix the (mtd core) switch to ref counters Lee Jones
2024-03-08 10:08 ` Michal Hocko [this message]
2024-03-08 10:27 ` Greg KH
2024-03-08 10:26 ` Robert Frohl
2024-03-08 16:02 ` Greg KH
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