From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S965368AbeAJMCF (ORCPT + 1 other); Wed, 10 Jan 2018 07:02:05 -0500 Received: from mail.linuxfoundation.org ([140.211.169.12]:35596 "EHLO mail.linuxfoundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932879AbeAJMCC (ORCPT ); Wed, 10 Jan 2018 07:02:02 -0500 Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2018 13:00:45 +0100 From: Greg Kroah-Hartman To: Mathieu Desnoyers Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org, Wanpeng Li , Paolo Bonzini , linux-kernel , Michael Jeanson Subject: Re: Commit missing in stable kernels: KVM: Fix stack-out-of-bounds read in write_mmio Message-ID: <20180110120045.GD5514@kroah.com> References: <765010266.49818.1515530956179.JavaMail.zimbra@efficios.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <765010266.49818.1515530956179.JavaMail.zimbra@efficios.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.9.2 (2017-12-15) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Return-Path: On Tue, Jan 09, 2018 at 08:49:16PM +0000, Mathieu Desnoyers wrote: > Hi Greg, > > commit e39d200fa "KVM: Fix stack-out-of-bounds read in write_mmio" > is upstream in latest 4.15-rc tags, is also in long term > 3.16.52+ and 3.2.97+ stable kernels, and in latest Fedora kernels, > but is missing from 4.14, 4.9, 4.4, 4.1 stable branches. > > I think the patch author missed the CC to stable@vger.kernel.org > > It might be good to consider picking it up into the stable kernels > to ensure long term stable and distro kernels don't diverge too much > from more recent stable kernel branches. Thanks, now picked up. I wonder how it got into the 3.16 and 3.2 kernels :( Also, always cc: stable@vger.kernel.org so that all of the stable maintainers can see it, as I am not in charge of all of them (i.e. 4.1) thanks, greg k-h