From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Greg Hackmann <ghackmann@google.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Please apply "ext4: verify the depth of extent tree in ext4_find_extent()" to 3.18.y
Date: Tue, 2 Oct 2018 04:57:21 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20181002115721.GD3030@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <193752e6-86a3-fe1a-4951-49bfa438700b@google.com>
On Wed, Sep 26, 2018 at 02:00:19PM -0700, Greg Hackmann wrote:
> bc890a602471 ("ext4: verify the depth of extent tree in ext4_find_extent()")
> fixes a potential buffer overrun when mounting corrupted ext4 filesystems.
>
> It was taken into 4.4.y and later but not 3.18.y, probably because it
> doesn't build as-is against 3.18. Ben Hutchings has a backport in the
> latest 3.16.y release (09999807edd8) which would work for 3.18.y too.
Now queued up, thanks.
greg k-h
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2018-09-26 21:00 Please apply "ext4: verify the depth of extent tree in ext4_find_extent()" to 3.18.y Greg Hackmann
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