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Date: Mon, 10 Apr 2017 17:05:51 +0200
From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: "Charles (Chas) Williams" <ciwillia@brocade.com>
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Subject: Re: Please cherry-pick 06ce521af955 ("kvm: fix page struct leak in
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On Mon, Apr 10, 2017 at 10:37:46AM -0400, Charles (Chas) Williams wrote:
> 
> 
> On 04/09/2017 03:20 PM, Greg KH wrote:
> > On Thu, Apr 06, 2017 at 05:40:14PM -0400, Charles (Chas) Williams wrote:
> > > commit 06ce521af9558814b8606c0476c54497cf83a653 upstream.
> > > 
> > > This addresses CVE-2017-2596.
> > 
> > Only 4.9?  what about all other stable releases?
> 
> Ah, I see this didn't make the 4.10.y yet.  So yes, I would like to see
> 4.10.y and 4.9.y get this.  It's not clear how I can ask for both since
> acceptance in 4.9.y is dependent on acceptance into 4.10.y.

Just ask for it to be included in both :)

Anyway, I just tried to add this, but it doesn't apply cleanly to
4.9-stable, so can you please provide a backported version?

thanks,

greg k-h