Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 10 May 2013 09:59:41 +0200 | From | Ingo Molnar <> | Subject | Re: [ 22/42] sched/debug: Fix sd->*_idx limit range avoiding overflow |
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* Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> wrote:
> On Tue, 2013-04-23 at 14:52 -0700, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > > 3.8-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. > > > > ------------------ > > > > From: libin <huawei.libin@huawei.com> > > > > commit fd9b86d37a600488dbd80fe60cca46b822bff1cd upstream. > > > > Commit 201c373e8e ("sched/debug: Limit sd->*_idx range on > > sysctl") was an incomplete bug fix. > [...] > > It seems like both these commits ought to be applied to earlier stable > branches. Or was the lack of range checking a regression after 3.4?
Both should be applied indeed.
They are not a huge problem as all these facilities are for debugging and are root-only, but the two fixes should be applied together or not at all.
Thanks,
Ingo
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