Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 8 Jun 2021 13:53:27 -0700 | From | Andrew Morton <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH v4 0/3] Actually fix freelist pointer vs redzoning |
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On Tue, 8 Jun 2021 11:39:52 -0700 Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> wrote:
> This fixes redzoning vs the freelist pointer (both for middle-position > and very small caches). Both are "theoretical" fixes, in that I see no > evidence of such small-sized caches actually be used in the kernel, but > that's no reason to let the bugs continue to exist, especially since > people doing local development keep tripping over it. :)
So I don't think this is suitable -stable material?
It's a bit odd that patches 2&3 were cc:stable but #1 was not. Makes one afraid that 2&3 might have had a dependency anyway.
So I'm thinking that the whole series can just be for 5.14-rc1, in the sent order.
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