linux-kernel - Re: patch hfsplus-check-read_mapping_page-return-value.patch added to 2.6.27-stable tree

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Date:	Wed, 12 Nov 2008 01:17:29 +0100
From:	Stefan Lippers-Hollmann <s.L-H@....de>
To:	gregkh@...e.de
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, stable@...nel.org
Subject: Re: patch hfsplus-check-read_mapping_page-return-value.patch added to 2.6.27-stable tree

Hi

On Dienstag, 11. November 2008, gregkh@...e.de wrote:
> 
> This is a note to let you know that we have just queued up the patch titled
> 
>     Subject: hfsplus: check read_mapping_page() return value (CVE-2008-4934)
> 
> to the 2.6.27-stable tree.  Its filename is
> 
>     hfsplus-check-read_mapping_page-return-value.patch
> 
> A git repo of this tree can be found at 
>     http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
> 
> 
> From 649f1ee6c705aab644035a7998d7b574193a598a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Eric Sesterhenn <snakebyte@....de>
> Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2008 22:04:10 -0700
> Subject: hfsplus: check read_mapping_page() return value (CVE-2008-4934)
> 
> From: Eric Sesterhenn <snakebyte@....de>
> 
> commit 649f1ee6c705aab644035a7998d7b574193a598a upstream.

This exact patch is already present in 2.6.27.5 and subsequently fails to 
apply.

Regards
	Stefan Lippers-Hollmann
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