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Date: Fri, 6 Dec 2013 09:43:27 -0500
From: Dwight Engen <dwight.engen@oracle.com>
To: Kees Cook <keescook@google.com>
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Subject: Re: XFS security fix never sent to -stable?
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On Thu, 5 Dec 2013 16:35:50 -0800
Kees Cook <keescook@google.com> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> It looks like 8c567a7fab6e086a0284eee2db82348521e7120c ("xfs: add
> capability check to free eofblocks ioctl") is a security fix that was
> never sent to -stable? From what I can see, it was introduced in 3.8
> by 8ca149de80478441352a8622ea15fae7de703ced ("xfs: add
> XFS_IOC_FREE_EOFBLOCKS ioctl").
> 
> I don't see this in the 3.8.y tree. Should it be added there and
> newer?

I believe that would be appropriate, but would defer to Brian as the
original author of the eofblocks change.

> Thanks,
> 
> -Kees
>