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

Chuck Lever
2025-01-29T13:55:38Z

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 ?

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Chuck Lever