netdev - Re: stable backport for the BPF speculation series?

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Message-Id: <20190122.084448.904846922511108864.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:   Tue, 22 Jan 2019 08:44:48 -0800 (PST)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     jannh@...gle.com
Cc:     alexei.starovoitov@...il.com, daniel@...earbox.net, ast@...nel.org,
        jakub.kicinski@...ronome.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        gregkh@...uxfoundation.org
Subject: Re: stable backport for the BPF speculation series?

From: Jann Horn <jannh@...gle.com>
Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2019 15:36:54 +0100

> On Thu, Jan 3, 2019 at 1:08 AM Alexei Starovoitov
> <alexei.starovoitov@...il.com> wrote:
>> On Thu, Jan 03, 2019 at 12:58:26AM +0100, Daniel Borkmann wrote:
>> > This set fixes an out of bounds case under speculative execution
>> > by implementing masking of pointer alu into the verifier. For
>> > details please see the individual patches.
>> >
>> > Thanks!
>> >
>> > v2 -> v3:
>> >   - 8/9: change states_equal condition into old->speculative &&
>> >     !cur->speculative, thanks Jakub!
>> >   - 8/9: remove incorrect speculative state test in
>> >     propagate_liveness(), thanks Jakub!
>> > v1 -> v2:
>> >   - Typo fixes in commit msg and a comment, thanks David!
>>
>> Applied, Thanks
> 
> This series and the followup fix ("bpf: fix sanitation of alu op with
> pointer / scalar type from different paths") have been in Linus' tree
> for six days, but from what I can tell, they aren't queued up for
> stable yet.
> 
> @davem: Are you going to send this through stable, or is this only
> going to be in 5.0?

The BPF developers handle their -stable submissions.