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From: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Thibaut Sautereau <thibaut@sautereau.fr>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org,
	Thibaut Sautereau <thibaut.sautereau@clip-os.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] exec: Fix mem leak in kernel_read_file
Date: Tue, 5 Mar 2019 07:20:20 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190305062020.GA18909@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190304221738.GA3189@gandi.net>

On Mon, Mar 04, 2019 at 11:17:38PM +0100, Thibaut Sautereau wrote:
> Commit f612acfae86af7ecad754ae6a46019be9da05b8e upstream
> ("exec: Fix mem leak in kernel_read_file"), addressing CVE-2019-8980,
> should be applied to 4.20, 4.19, 4.14 and 4.9 stable kernels.

Any reason you didn't cc: the authors of that patch?

And as it _just_ went into Linus's tree today, give us a few weeks to
get it backported...

Also, it's just a "normal" syzbot fix, for a very rare case, why is this
a CVE?

thanks,

greg k-h

  reply	other threads:[~2019-03-05  6:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-03-04 22:17 [PATCH] exec: Fix mem leak in kernel_read_file Thibaut Sautereau
2019-03-05  6:20 ` Greg KH [this message]
2019-03-05  9:00   ` Thibaut Sautereau
2019-03-08 12:40     ` Greg KH

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