linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 4.20 000/145] 4.20.1-stable review

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Message-Id: <43Z2dr6ySKz7VMT@mx.demfloro.ru>
Date:   Tue,  8 Jan 2019 19:39:44 +0000 (UTC)
From:   Dmitrii Tcvetkov <demfloro@...floro.ru>
To:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Cc:     <stable@...r.kernel.org>, <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4.20 000/145] 4.20.1-stable review

Hello, 

Don't have anything against listed patches, just curious: doesn't upstream commit 
574823bfab82d9d8fa47f422778043fbb4b4f50e 
(Change mincore() to count "mapped" pages rather than "cached" pages) 
need to be backported as a security fix for CVE-2019-5489[1] to stable kernels?

[1] https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2019/01/07/2