From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1161097Ab3LFPGd (ORCPT ); Fri, 6 Dec 2013 10:06:33 -0500 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:51086 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751254Ab3LFPGc (ORCPT ); Fri, 6 Dec 2013 10:06:32 -0500 Message-ID: <52A1E7E9.8020904@redhat.com> Date: Fri, 06 Dec 2013 10:06:17 -0500 From: Brian Foster User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.1.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Dwight Engen , Kees Cook CC: LKML , Dave Chinner , Gao feng , Ben Myers , Greg KH Subject: Re: XFS security fix never sent to -stable? References: <20131206094327.0b0e22ef@oracle.com> In-Reply-To: <20131206094327.0b0e22ef@oracle.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 12/06/2013 09:43 AM, Dwight Engen wrote: > On Thu, 5 Dec 2013 16:35:50 -0800 > Kees Cook 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. > I have no objection to proposing this for stable. The fix is straightforward and isolated enough. Brian >> Thanks, >> >> -Kees >> >