From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Ondrej Mosnacek <omosnace@redhat.com>
Cc: alexander.levin@microsoft.com, Paul Moore <paul@paul-moore.com>,
stable-commits@vger.kernel.org, stable@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Patch "audit: Fix extended comparison of GID/EGID" has been added to the 4.18-stable tree
Date: Tue, 2 Oct 2018 04:50:13 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20181002115013.GA3030@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAFqZXNsur5VZi4UU=PWS_HPxx9Z2PM+6-0XZwC-AEfWMR6-REw@mail.gmail.com>
On Mon, Oct 01, 2018 at 10:29:26AM +0200, Ondrej Mosnacek wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Sat, Sep 29, 2018 at 2:10 PM <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
> > This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
> >
> > audit: Fix extended comparison of GID/EGID
> >
> > to the 4.18-stable tree which can be found at:
> > http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
> >
> > The filename of the patch is:
> > audit-fix-extended-comparison-of-gid-egid.patch
> > and it can be found in the queue-4.18 subdirectory.
> >
> > If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
> > please let <stable@vger.kernel.org> know about it.
>
> IIRC Paul didn't want this patch to go to stable (he asked me to
> remove the Cc: stable@... line), since the bug has been there for a
> long time and any user affected by it either doesn't care or might
> actually (maybe unknowingly) rely on it. I still kept the Fixes: line
> so it is clear which commit introduced the bug.
>
> Paul, any comments?
>
> In any case, if you decide to push this patch into stable (note that
> it is queued also for 4.14, 4.9, 4.4, and 3.18), then make sure to
> include also commit 4b09791ba059 ("cred: conditionally declare
> groups-related functions") to avoid build errors with
> CONFIG_MULTIUSER=n and CONFIG_AUDIT_SYSCALL=y. It is a non-functional
> commit for the rest of the kernel.
I've now dropped this from all of the stable queues, thanks.
greg k-h
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2018-10-01 8:29 ` Patch "audit: Fix extended comparison of GID/EGID" has been added to the 4.18-stable tree Ondrej Mosnacek
2018-10-02 11:50 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman [this message]
2018-10-02 12:04 ` Paul Moore
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