Re: [RFC PATCH v6.6 00/10] Address CVE-2024-46701

Greg Kroah-Hartman
2025-01-29T14:51:47Z

On Wed, Jan 29, 2025 at 08:55:15AM -0500, Chuck Lever wrote:
> On 1/24/25 2:19 PM, cel@kernel.org wrote:
> > From: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com>
> >
> > This series backports several upstream fixes to origin/linux-6.6.y
> > in order to address CVE-2024-46701:
> >
> > https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-46701
> >
> > As applied to origin/linux-6.6.y, this series passes fstests and the
> > git regression suite.
> >
> > Before officially requesting that stable@ merge this series, I'd
> > like to provide an opportunity for community review of the backport
> > patches.
> >
> > You can also find them them in the "nfsd-6.6.y" branch in
> >
> > https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/cel/linux.git
> >
> > Chuck Lever (10):
> > libfs: Re-arrange locking in offset_iterate_dir()
> > libfs: Define a minimum directory offset
> > libfs: Add simple_offset_empty()
> > libfs: Fix simple_offset_rename_exchange()
> > libfs: Add simple_offset_rename() API
> > shmem: Fix shmem_rename2()
> > libfs: Return ENOSPC when the directory offset range is exhausted
> > Revert "libfs: Add simple_offset_empty()"
> > libfs: Replace simple_offset end-of-directory detection
> > libfs: Use d_children list to iterate simple_offset directories
> >
> > fs/libfs.c | 177 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------------
> > include/linux/fs.h | 2 +
> > mm/shmem.c | 3 +-
> > 3 files changed, 134 insertions(+), 48 deletions(-)
> >
>
> I've heard no objections or other comments. Greg, Sasha, shall we
> proceed with merging this patch series into v6.6 ?

Um, but not all of these are in a released kernel yet, so we can't take
them all yet. Also what about 6.12.y and 6.13.y for those commits that
will be showing up in 6.14-rc1? We can't have regressions for people
moving to those releases from 6.6.y, right?

thanks,

greg k-h