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

Greg KH
2015-02-07T17:08:08Z

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?

thanks,

greg k-h