Re: [PATCH][request for stable 3.10 inclusion] ext4 CVE-2014-8086

Greg KH
2015-02-07T08:54:04Z

On Sat, Feb 07, 2015 at 04:51:56PM +0800, Greg KH wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 05, 2015 at 03:43:05PM +0800, hujianyang wrote:
> > Hi Greg,
> >
> > The following patch commit a41537e69b4aa43f0fea02498c2595a81267383b
> >
> > ext4: prevent bugon on race between write/fcntl
> >
> > fix CVE-2014-8086 in upstream kernel. I wish you could merge this fix
> > into stable 3.10. Since refactoring in ext4, the sending patch is quite
> > different from the patch in upstream kernel.
>
> Before I do that, can you also provide a backport to the 3.14-stable
> kernel tree so that we don't have that tree missing this?

Nevermind, I took this patch for 3.14 as your backport worked there as
well.

thanks,

greg k-h