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From: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>
Cc: hare@suse.de, jthumshirn@suse.de, hch@lst.de, salyzyn@google.com,
	Robb Glasser <rglasser@google.com>,
	Doug Gilbert <dgilbert@interlog.com>,
	"James E.J. Bottomley" <jejb@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	"Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@oracle.com>,
	linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] scsi: sg: Prevent potential double frees in sg driver
Date: Thu, 3 Aug 2017 12:23:54 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170803192354.GA1598@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170803190248.51537-1-ndesaulniers@google.com>

On Thu, Aug 03, 2017 at 12:02:47PM -0700, Nick Desaulniers wrote:
> From: Robb Glasser <rglasser@google.com>
> 
> sg_ioctl could be spammed by requests, leading to a double free in
> __free_pages. This protects the entry points of sg_ioctl where the
> memory could be corrupted by a double call to __free_pages if multiple
> requests are happening concurrently.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Robb Glasser <rglasser@google.com>
> Signed-off-by: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>
> ---
>  drivers/scsi/sg.c | 2 ++
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

Why no one on the to: line?

And do you want this in the stable kernel trees?  If so, please read:
    https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/process/stable-kernel-rules.html
for how to do this properly.

thanks,

greg k-h

  reply	other threads:[~2017-08-03 19:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-08-03 19:02 [PATCH] scsi: sg: Prevent potential double frees in sg driver Nick Desaulniers
2017-08-03 19:23 ` Greg KH [this message]
2017-08-03 19:34   ` Nick Desaulniers
2017-08-03 19:51     ` Greg KH
2017-08-05 11:37 ` Christoph Hellwig

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