Re: Commit missing in stable kernels: KVM: Fix stack-out-of-bounds read in write_mmio

Re: Commit missing in stable kernels: KVM: Fix stack-out-of-bounds read in write_mmio

[Greg Kroah-Hartman]

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