Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 06 Dec 2013 10:06:17 -0500 | From | Brian Foster <> | Subject | Re: XFS security fix never sent to -stable? |
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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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