From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Ming Lei <ming.lei@canonical.com>
Cc: nirinA raseliarison <nirina.raseliarison@gmail.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>,
Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@google.com>,
stable <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] firmware loader: fix use-after-free by double abort
Date: Mon, 17 Jun 2013 16:59:15 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130617235915.GA19162@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1371285398-18566-1-git-send-email-ming.lei@canonical.com>
On Sat, Jun 15, 2013 at 04:36:38PM +0800, Ming Lei wrote:
> fw_priv->buf is accessed in both request_firmware_load() and
> writing to sysfs file of 'loading' context, but not protected
> by 'fw_lock' entirely. The patch makes sure that access on
> 'fw_priv->buf' is protected by the lock.
>
> So fixes the double abort problem reported by nirinA raseliarison:
>
> http://lkml.org/lkml/2013/6/14/188
>
> Reported-and-tested-by: nirinA raseliarison <nirina.raseliarison@gmail.com>
> Cc: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
> Cc: Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@google.com>
> Cc: stable <stable@vger.kernel.org>
> Signed-off-by: Ming Lei <ming.lei@canonical.com>
So this is a 3.9-stable thing? Anything newer than that?
thanks,
greg k-h
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-06-17 23:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-06-15 8:36 [PATCH] firmware loader: fix use-after-free by double abort Ming Lei
2013-06-17 23:59 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman [this message]
2013-06-18 0:33 ` Ming Lei
2013-06-18 4:05 ` Guenter Roeck
2013-06-18 4:13 ` Ming Lei
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