Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [ 22/42] sched/debug: Fix sd->*_idx limit range avoiding overflow | From | Ben Hutchings <> | Date | Tue, 28 May 2013 02:47:54 +0100 |
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On Fri, 2013-05-10 at 09:59 +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote: > * 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.
I've queued up both of these for 3.2.
Ben.
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