From: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
To: Ben Hutchings <ben.hutchings@codethink.co.uk>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
Sasha Levin <Alexander.Levin@microsoft.com>,
stable <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [stable] locks: fix a potential use-after-free problem when wakeup a waiter
Date: Wed, 18 Mar 2020 18:29:06 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200318222906.GJ4189@sasha-vm> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2082b1e11fdbf3b64f0da022fb15a8b615c3678c.camel@codethink.co.uk>
On Wed, Mar 18, 2020 at 10:09:20PM +0000, Ben Hutchings wrote:
>This commit (included in 5.6-rc5) seems to be needed for 5.4 and 5.5
>branches:
>
>commit 6d390e4b5d48ec03bb87e63cf0a2bff5f4e116da
>Author: yangerkun <yangerkun@huawei.com>
>Date: Wed Mar 4 15:25:56 2020 +0800
>
> locks: fix a potential use-after-free problem when wakeup a waiter
I've queued it up for 5.5 and 5.4, thanks!
>I'm a bit surprised that it hasn't yet been applied, while some fixes
>from 5.6-rc6 have.
Greg, I wonder if it makes sense to have you push a "Greg is here
--->" "bookmark" in the form of a tag/branch on linux-stable-rc.git? at
the very least it'll make it easy to see if something was missed or
still waiting in the queue.
--
Thanks,
Sasha
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-03-18 22:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-03-18 22:09 [stable] locks: fix a potential use-after-free problem when wakeup a waiter Ben Hutchings
2020-03-18 22:29 ` Sasha Levin [this message]
2020-03-19 6:37 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2020-03-19 19:27 ` Ben Hutchings
2020-03-20 5:41 ` Nathan Chancellor
2020-03-22 1:55 ` Sasha Levin
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