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From: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Oliver Hartkopp <socketcan@hartkopp.net>
Cc: harperchen1110@gmail.com, mkl@pengutronix.de, stable@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: FAILED: patch "[PATCH] can: af_can: fix NULL pointer dereference in can_rcv_filter" failed to apply to 4.19-stable tree
Date: Mon, 12 Dec 2022 12:55:32 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Y5cWtLwRyrnOPG0I@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <e3b578a6-450b-11d6-caf9-33af7ad3cc3a@hartkopp.net>

On Mon, Dec 12, 2022 at 11:15:58AM +0100, Oliver Hartkopp wrote:
> Just FYI
> 
> The longterm kernels before Linux 5.4 (4.9/4.14/4.19) are not affected by
> this issue as the netdev->ml_priv pointer is assigned within a netdev
> notifier for ARPHRD_CAN interfaces and this always assigns the data
> structure properly.
> 
> I tested the crash reproducer from the syzbot bug report which did not have
> any bad effect (as expected).

Wonderful, thanks for letting us know.

greg k-h

      reply	other threads:[~2022-12-12 11:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-12-11  9:53 FAILED: patch "[PATCH] can: af_can: fix NULL pointer dereference in can_rcv_filter" failed to apply to 4.19-stable tree gregkh
2022-12-12 10:15 ` Oliver Hartkopp
2022-12-12 11:55   ` Greg KH [this message]

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