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Message-ID: <Zerjs8hlMJOXt0Sv@tiehlicka>
Date: Fri, 8 Mar 2024 11:08:51 +0100
From: Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.com>
To: cve@...nel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc: Lee Jones <lee@...nel.org>
Subject: Re: CVE-2023-52496: mtd: maps: vmu-flash: Fix the (mtd core) switch
 to ref counters

On Thu 29-02-24 15:52:56, Lee Jones wrote:
> Description
> ===========
> 
> In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
> 
> mtd: maps: vmu-flash: Fix the (mtd core) switch to ref counters
> 
> While switching to ref counters for track mtd devices use, the vmu-flash
> driver was forgotten. The reason for reading the ref counter seems
> debatable, but let's just fix the build for now.

Do we really consider build fixes as CVE? 
-- 
Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs

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