linux-kernel - Re: [request for stable inclusion 3.10 and 3.12] Fix CVE-2014-8173

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Message-ID: <5547789A.2040802@suse.cz>
Date:	Mon, 04 May 2015 15:48:10 +0200
From:	Jiri Slaby <jslaby@...e.cz>
To:	Wang Long <long.wanglong@...wei.com>, gregkh@...uxfoundation.org
CC:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, stable@...r.kernel.org,
	peifeiyue@...wei.com, sasha.levin@...cle.com, aarcange@...hat.com
Subject: Re: [request for stable inclusion 3.10 and 3.12] Fix CVE-2014-8173

On 03/20/2015, 08:49 AM, Wang Long wrote:
> Hi Greg and Jiri,
> 
> The following patch commit ee53664bda169f519ce3c6a22d378f0b946c8178
> 
> mm: Fix NULL pointer dereference in madvise(MADV_WILLNEED) support
> 
> fix CVE-2014-8173. I wish you could merge this fix into stable 3.10
> and 3.12, because the linux kernel before 3.13 on NUMA systems 
> is affected by it.

Now applied to 3.12. Thanks!

-- 
js
suse labs
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