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SubjectRe: XFS security fix never sent to -stable?
On 12/06/2013 09:43 AM, Dwight Engen wrote:
> On Thu, 5 Dec 2013 16:35:50 -0800
> Kees Cook <keescook@google.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> It looks like 8c567a7fab6e086a0284eee2db82348521e7120c ("xfs: add
>> capability check to free eofblocks ioctl") is a security fix that was
>> never sent to -stable? From what I can see, it was introduced in 3.8
>> by 8ca149de80478441352a8622ea15fae7de703ced ("xfs: add
>> XFS_IOC_FREE_EOFBLOCKS ioctl").
>>
>> I don't see this in the 3.8.y tree. Should it be added there and
>> newer?
>
> I believe that would be appropriate, but would defer to Brian as the
> original author of the eofblocks change.
>

I have no objection to proposing this for stable. The fix is
straightforward and isolated enough.

Brian

>> Thanks,
>>
>> -Kees
>>
>



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