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From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Liu Shixin <liushixin2@huawei.com>
Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>,
	Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>,
	stable@vger.kernel.org, "Jann Horn," <jannh@google.com>,
	Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: Questions about backports of fixes for "CoW after fork() issue"
Date: Wed, 16 Jun 2021 08:52:01 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <YMmfke61mTcPV4vB@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <f546c93e-0e36-03a1-fb08-67f46c83d2e7@huawei.com>

On Wed, Jun 16, 2021 at 02:47:15PM +0800, Liu Shixin wrote:
> Hi, Suren,
> 
> I read the previous discussion about fixing CVE-2020-29374 in stable 4.14 and 4.19 in
> <https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/20210401181741.168763-1-surenb@google.com/>
> 
> https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/20210401181741.168763-1-surenb@google.com/
> 
> And the results of the discussion is that you backports of 17839856fd58 for 4.14 and
> 
> 4.19 kernels.
> 
> But the bug about dax and strace in the discussion has not been solved, right? I don't
> 
> find a conclusion on this issue, am I missing something? Does this problem still exist in
> 
> the stable 4.14 and 4.19 kernel?

As the code is all there for you, can you just test them and see for
yourself?

thanks,

greg k-h

       reply	other threads:[~2021-06-16  6:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <f546c93e-0e36-03a1-fb08-67f46c83d2e7@huawei.com>
2021-06-16  6:52 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman [this message]
2021-06-16  7:11   ` Questions about backports of fixes for "CoW after fork() issue" Suren Baghdasaryan
2021-06-16  9:28     ` Liu Shixin
2021-06-16  9:36       ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2021-06-16 10:17         ` Vlastimil Babka

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