linux-kernel - Re: locks use-after-free stable request

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Date:   Tue, 24 Mar 2020 07:53:52 -0700
From:   Mark Salyzyn <salyzyn@...roid.com>
To:     Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Cc:     stable <stable@...r.kernel.org>,
        Android Kernel Team <kernel-team@...roid.com>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: locks use-after-free stable request

On 3/24/20 7:43 AM, Greg KH wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 24, 2020 at 07:24:49AM -0700, Mark Salyzyn wrote:
>> Referencing upstream fixes commit dcf23ac3e846ca0cf626c155a0e3fcbbcf4fae8a
>> ("locks: reinstate locks_delete_block optimization") and commit
>> 6d390e4b5d48ec03bb87e63cf0a2bff5f4e116da ("locks: fix a potential
>> use-after-free problem when wakeup a waiter") and possibly address
>> CVE-2019-19769.
>>
>> Please apply to all relevant stable trees including 5.4, 4.19 and below.
>> Confirmed they apply cleanly to 5.4 and 4.19.
>>
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Mark Salyzyn <salyzyn@...roid.com>
>>
>> Cc: stable@...r.kernel.org
>>
>> Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
>>
>> Cc: kernel-team@...roid.com
>>
> These are all queued up for the next round of 5.4 and 5.5 stable
> releases,but they do not seem to apply to 4.19.
>
> And why do you think they apply to 4.19, that's not what 6d390e4b5d48
> ("locks: fix a potential use-after-free problem when wakeup a waiter")
> says.

When I used my tool to apply the pair by sha, I failed to notice that 
they were _both_ skipped because they are _both_ already present and 
read that as clean without looking at _what_ got applied or not.

(I will be fixing my tool)

> confused,

<sorry>

>
> greg k-h