From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from wout2-smtp.messagingengine.com ([64.147.123.25]:42591 "EHLO wout2-smtp.messagingengine.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1727434AbeJBSkV (ORCPT ); Tue, 2 Oct 2018 14:40:21 -0400 Date: Tue, 2 Oct 2018 04:57:21 -0700 From: Greg KH To: Greg Hackmann Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Please apply "ext4: verify the depth of extent tree in ext4_find_extent()" to 3.18.y Message-ID: <20181002115721.GD3030@kroah.com> References: <193752e6-86a3-fe1a-4951-49bfa438700b@google.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <193752e6-86a3-fe1a-4951-49bfa438700b@google.com> Sender: stable-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: 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