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From: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
To: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: Loic <hackurx@opensec.fr>, "# 3.4.x" <stable@vger.kernel.org>,
	Salvatore Mesoraca <s.mesoraca16@gmail.com>,
	Solar Designer <solar@openwall.com>,
	Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>,
	Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] namei: allow restricted O_CREAT of FIFOs and regular files
Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2018 11:00:38 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20181031150037.GQ194472@sasha-vm> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAGXu5jKLASZ_XSYtXubH6vzZN689o1MrirJncch1aY8JC8Vi6w@mail.gmail.com>

On Tue, Oct 30, 2018 at 01:28:36PM -0700, Kees Cook wrote:
>On Tue, Oct 23, 2018 at 7:37 PM, Loic <hackurx@opensec.fr> wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> Please picked up this patch for linux 4.9 and 4.14 (linux 4.4 needs a small modification).
>> Indeed, this code will be beneficial to the GNU/Linux distributions that use a longterm kernel.
>
>Thanks for doing these (and 4.4). It'll be nice to have this available.
>
>Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>

This is a hardening patch rather than something that addresses a known
issue, no? Why would it go into stable?

--
Thanks,
Sasha

  reply	other threads:[~2018-10-31 23:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-10-23 18:37 [PATCH] namei: allow restricted O_CREAT of FIFOs and regular files Loic
2018-10-30 20:28 ` Kees Cook
2018-10-31 15:00   ` Sasha Levin [this message]
2018-10-31 16:27     ` Kees Cook
2018-10-31 20:57       ` Loic
2018-11-15 17:05 ` Sasha Levin
2018-11-15 18:26   ` Sasha Levin
2018-11-15 19:24   ` Loic
2018-11-29 12:28 ` Greg KH

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