From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
To: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung.kim@lge.com>,
Libin <huawei.libin@huawei.com>,
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@vger.kernel.org,
jiang.liu@huawei.com, guohanjun@huawei.com,
Jonghwan Choi <jhbird.choi@samsung.com>,
Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Subject: Re: [ 22/42] sched/debug: Fix sd->*_idx limit range avoiding overflow
Date: Fri, 10 May 2013 09:59:41 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130510075941.GB6364@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1368152071.17344.5.camel@deadeye.wl.decadent.org.uk>
* Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> wrote:
> On Tue, 2013-04-23 at 14:52 -0700, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > 3.8-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
> >
> > ------------------
> >
> > From: libin <huawei.libin@huawei.com>
> >
> > commit fd9b86d37a600488dbd80fe60cca46b822bff1cd upstream.
> >
> > Commit 201c373e8e ("sched/debug: Limit sd->*_idx range on
> > sysctl") was an incomplete bug fix.
> [...]
>
> It seems like both these commits ought to be applied to earlier stable
> branches. Or was the lack of range checking a regression after 3.4?
Both should be applied indeed.
They are not a huge problem as all these facilities are for debugging and
are root-only, but the two fixes should be applied together or not at all.
Thanks,
Ingo
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-05-10 7:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 50+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-04-23 21:51 [ 00/42] 3.8.9-stable review Greg Kroah-Hartman
2013-04-23 21:51 ` [ 01/42] powerpc: add a missing label in resume_kernel Greg Kroah-Hartman
2013-04-23 21:52 ` [ 02/42] kvm/powerpc/e500mc: fix tlb invalidation on cpu migration Greg Kroah-Hartman
2013-04-23 21:52 ` [ 03/42] ARM: Do 15e0d9e37c (ARM: pm: let platforms select cpu_suspend support) properly Greg Kroah-Hartman
2013-04-23 21:52 ` [ 04/42] kthread: Prevent unpark race which puts threads on the wrong cpu Greg Kroah-Hartman
2013-04-23 21:52 ` [ 05/42] hrtimer: Dont reinitialize a cpu_base lock on CPU_UP Greg Kroah-Hartman
2013-04-23 21:52 ` [ 06/42] can: mcp251x: add missing IRQF_ONESHOT to request_threaded_irq Greg Kroah-Hartman
2013-04-23 21:52 ` [ 07/42] can: sja1000: fix handling on dt properties on little endian systems Greg Kroah-Hartman
2013-04-23 21:52 ` [ 08/42] hugetlbfs: stop setting VM_DONTDUMP in initializing vma(VM_HUGETLB) Greg Kroah-Hartman
2013-04-23 21:52 ` [ 09/42] hugetlbfs: add swap entry check in follow_hugetlb_page() Greg Kroah-Hartman
2013-04-23 21:52 ` [ 10/42] fs/binfmt_elf.c: fix hugetlb memory check in vma_dump_size() Greg Kroah-Hartman
2013-04-23 21:52 ` [ 11/42] kernel/signal.c: stop info leak via the tkill and the tgkill syscalls Greg Kroah-Hartman
2013-04-23 21:52 ` [ 12/42] hfsplus: fix potential overflow in hfsplus_file_truncate() Greg Kroah-Hartman
2013-04-23 21:52 ` [ 13/42] md: raid1,10: Handle REQ_WRITE_SAME flag in write bios Greg Kroah-Hartman
2013-04-23 21:52 ` [ 14/42] KVM: x86: fix for buffer overflow in handling of MSR_KVM_SYSTEM_TIME (CVE-2013-1796) Greg Kroah-Hartman
2013-04-23 21:52 ` [ 15/42] KVM: x86: Convert MSR_KVM_SYSTEM_TIME to use gfn_to_hva_cache functions (CVE-2013-1797) Greg Kroah-Hartman
2013-04-23 21:52 ` [ 16/42] KVM: Fix bounds checking in ioapic indirect register reads (CVE-2013-1798) Greg Kroah-Hartman
2013-04-23 21:52 ` [ 17/42] KVM: Allow cross page reads and writes from cached translations Greg Kroah-Hartman
2013-04-23 21:52 ` [ 18/42] ARM: i.MX35: enable MAX clock Greg Kroah-Hartman
2013-04-23 21:52 ` [ 19/42] ARM: clk-imx35: Bugfix iomux clock Greg Kroah-Hartman
2013-04-23 21:52 ` [ 20/42] tg3: Add 57766 device support Greg Kroah-Hartman
2013-04-23 21:52 ` [ 21/42] sched: Convert BUG_ON()s in try_to_wake_up_local() to WARN_ON_ONCE()s Greg Kroah-Hartman
2013-04-23 21:52 ` [ 22/42] sched/debug: Fix sd->*_idx limit range avoiding overflow Greg Kroah-Hartman
2013-05-10 2:14 ` Ben Hutchings
2013-05-10 7:59 ` Ingo Molnar [this message]
2013-05-28 1:47 ` Ben Hutchings
2013-04-23 21:52 ` [ 23/42] ARM: 7696/1: Fix kexec by setting outer_cache.inv_all for Feroceon Greg Kroah-Hartman
2013-04-23 21:52 ` [ 24/42] ARM: 7698/1: perf: fix group validation when using enable_on_exec Greg Kroah-Hartman
2013-04-23 21:52 ` [ 25/42] ath9k_htc: accept 1.x firmware newer than 1.3 Greg Kroah-Hartman
2013-04-23 21:52 ` [ 26/42] ath9k_hw: change AR9580 initvals to fix a stability issue Greg Kroah-Hartman
2013-04-23 21:52 ` [ 27/42] mac80211: fix cfg80211 interaction on auth/assoc request Greg Kroah-Hartman
2013-04-23 21:52 ` [ 28/42] ssb: implement spurious tone avoidance Greg Kroah-Hartman
2013-04-23 21:52 ` [ 29/42] crypto: algif - suppress sending source address information in recvmsg Greg Kroah-Hartman
2013-04-23 21:52 ` [ 30/42] perf: Treat attr.config as u64 in perf_swevent_init() Greg Kroah-Hartman
2013-04-23 21:52 ` [ 31/42] perf/x86: Fix offcore_rsp valid mask for SNB/IVB Greg Kroah-Hartman
2013-04-23 21:52 ` [ 32/42] userns: Dont let unprivileged users trick privileged users into setting the id_map Greg Kroah-Hartman
2013-04-23 21:52 ` [ 33/42] userns: Check uid_maps openers fsuid, not the current fsuid Greg Kroah-Hartman
2013-04-23 21:52 ` [ 34/42] userns: Changing any namespace id mappings should require privileges Greg Kroah-Hartman
2013-04-23 21:52 ` [ 35/42] vm: add vm_iomap_memory() helper function Greg Kroah-Hartman
2013-04-23 21:52 ` [ 36/42] vm: convert snd_pcm_lib_mmap_iomem() to vm_iomap_memory() helper Greg Kroah-Hartman
2013-04-23 21:52 ` [ 37/42] vm: convert fb_mmap " Greg Kroah-Hartman
2013-04-23 21:52 ` [ 38/42] vm: convert HPET mmap " Greg Kroah-Hartman
2013-04-23 21:52 ` [ 39/42] vm: convert mtdchar " Greg Kroah-Hartman
2013-04-23 21:52 ` [ 40/42] Btrfs: make sure nbytes are right after log replay Greg Kroah-Hartman
2013-04-23 21:52 ` [ 41/42] s390: move dummy io_remap_pfn_range() to asm/pgtable.h Greg Kroah-Hartman
2013-04-23 21:52 ` [ 42/42] Revert "MIPS: page.h: Provide more readable definition for PAGE_MASK." Greg Kroah-Hartman
2013-04-24 16:23 ` [ 00/42] 3.8.9-stable review Shuah Khan
2013-04-24 16:24 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2013-04-25 10:43 ` Satoru Takeuchi
2013-04-25 14:49 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
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