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Date:   Wed, 9 Jan 2019 07:05:29 +0100
From:   Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To:     Dmitrii Tcvetkov <demfloro@demfloro.ru>
Cc:     stable@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4.20 000/145] 4.20.1-stable review
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On Tue, Jan 08, 2019 at 07:39:44PM +0000, Dmitrii Tcvetkov wrote:
> Hello, 
> 
> Don't have anything against listed patches, just curious: doesn't upstream commit 
> 574823bfab82d9d8fa47f422778043fbb4b4f50e 
> (Change mincore() to count "mapped" pages rather than "cached" pages) 
> need to be backported as a security fix for CVE-2019-5489[1] to stable kernels?
> 
> [1] https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2019/01/07/2

Please read the email thread for that patch on the linux kernel mailing
list as to why it is not to be applied at this point in time.

If you are worried about this issue, please weigh in on that thread.

thanks,

greg k-h