linux-ext4 - Re: [PATCH][request for stable 3.10 inclusion] ext4 CVE-2014-8086

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Date:	Sat, 7 Feb 2015 16:51:56 +0800
From:	Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:	hujianyang <hujianyang@...wei.com>
Cc:	stable@...r.kernel.org, Li Zefan <lizefan@...wei.com>,
	linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org, dmonakhov@...nvz.org,
	sasha.levin@...cle.com, tytso@....edu
Subject: Re: [PATCH][request for stable 3.10 inclusion] ext4 CVE-2014-8086

On Thu, Feb 05, 2015 at 03:43:05PM +0800, hujianyang wrote:
> Hi Greg,
> 
> The following patch commit a41537e69b4aa43f0fea02498c2595a81267383b
> 
> ext4: prevent bugon on race between write/fcntl
> 
> fix CVE-2014-8086 in upstream kernel. I wish you could merge this fix
> into stable 3.10. Since refactoring in ext4, the sending patch is quite
> different from the patch in upstream kernel.

Before I do that, can you also provide a backport to the 3.14-stable
kernel tree so that we don't have that tree missing this?

thanks,

greg k-h
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