linux-kernel - Re: Porting fix for CVE-2024-38545 to linux-5.15.y

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Message-ID: <2024091224-deepen-herbal-3961@gregkh>
Date: Thu, 12 Sep 2024 07:05:39 +0200
From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To: "Yan, Haixiao (CN)" <haixiao.yan.cn@...driver.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Porting fix for CVE-2024-38545 to linux-5.15.y

On Thu, Sep 12, 2024 at 11:33:47AM +0800, Yan, Haixiao (CN) wrote:
> Hello Greg,
> 
> Could you help to porting
> 
> https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git/commit/?id=a942ec2745ca864cd8512142100e4027dc306a42
> 
> to the stable version linux-5.15.y

Please provide a backported, and tested patch, for that and submit it to
stable@...r.kernel.org as the documentation states if you wish to have
it in that kernel version.

And why just 5.15?  Why not older kernels?

thanks,

greg k-h