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From: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Hao Luo <haoluo@google.com>
Cc: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>,
	Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org>,
	Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>,
	laura@labbott.name, stable@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH stable linux-5.16.y 0/9] Fix bpf mem read/write vulnerability.
Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2022 20:05:47 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Yg6cixLJFoxDmp+I@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20220216225209.2196865-1-haoluo@google.com>

On Wed, Feb 16, 2022 at 02:52:00PM -0800, Hao Luo wrote:
> Hi Greg,
> 
> Please consider cherry-pick this patch series into 5.16.x stable. It
> includes a fix to a bug in 5.16 stable which allows a user with cap_bpf
> privileges to get root privileges. The patch that fixes the bug is
> 
>  patch 7/9: bpf: Make per_cpu_ptr return rdonly
> 
> The rest are the depedences required by the fix patch. This patchset has
> been merged in mainline v5.17. The patches were not planned to backport
> because of its complex dependences.

How about 5.10 or 5.15?  Any chance to backport them there too?

thanks,

greg k-h

  parent reply	other threads:[~2022-02-17 19:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-02-16 22:52 [PATCH stable linux-5.16.y 0/9] Fix bpf mem read/write vulnerability Hao Luo
2022-02-16 22:52 ` [PATCH stable linux-5.16.y 1/9] bpf: Introduce composable reg, ret and arg types Hao Luo
2022-02-16 22:52 ` [PATCH stable linux-5.16.y 2/9] bpf: Replace ARG_XXX_OR_NULL with ARG_XXX | PTR_MAYBE_NULL Hao Luo
2022-02-16 22:52 ` [PATCH stable linux-5.16.y 3/9] bpf: Replace RET_XXX_OR_NULL with RET_XXX " Hao Luo
2022-02-16 22:52 ` [PATCH stable linux-5.16.y 4/9] bpf: Replace PTR_TO_XXX_OR_NULL with PTR_TO_XXX " Hao Luo
2022-02-16 22:52 ` [PATCH stable linux-5.16.y 5/9] bpf: Introduce MEM_RDONLY flag Hao Luo
2022-02-16 22:52 ` [PATCH stable linux-5.16.y 6/9] bpf: Convert PTR_TO_MEM_OR_NULL to composable types Hao Luo
2022-02-16 22:52 ` [PATCH stable linux-5.16.y 7/9] bpf: Make per_cpu_ptr return rdonly PTR_TO_MEM Hao Luo
2022-02-16 22:52 ` [PATCH stable linux-5.16.y 8/9] bpf: Add MEM_RDONLY for helper args that are pointers to rdonly mem Hao Luo
2022-02-16 22:52 ` [PATCH stable linux-5.16.y 9/9] bpf/selftests: Test PTR_TO_RDONLY_MEM Hao Luo
2022-02-17 19:05 ` Greg KH [this message]
2022-02-17 19:59   ` [PATCH stable linux-5.16.y 0/9] Fix bpf mem read/write vulnerability Hao Luo

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