Re: XFS security fix never sent to -stable?

Dwight Engen
2013-12-06T14:43:42Z

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
>