Fwd: XFS security fix never sent to -stable?

Kamal Mostafa kamal at canonical.com
Wed Dec 11 17:46:00 UTC 2013


On Sun, 2013-12-08 at 10:05 -0700, Tim Gardner wrote:
> In case y'all missed this. Looks like Kees did not Cc stable.

Thanks Tim -- queued up for 3.8-stable.

 -Kamal


> 
> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: XFS security fix never sent to -stable?
> Date: Thu, 5 Dec 2013 16:35:50 -0800
> From: Kees Cook <keescook at google.com>
> To: Dwight Engen <dwight.engen at oracle.com>
> CC: LKML <linux-kernel at vger.kernel.org>, Brian Foster
> <bfoster at redhat.com>, Dave Chinner <dchinner at redhat.com>, Gao feng
> <gaofeng at cn.fujitsu.com>, Ben Myers <bpm at sgi.com>, Greg KH
> <gregkh at linuxfoundation.org>
> 
> Hi,
> 
> It looks like 8c567a7fab6e086a0284eee2db82348521e7120c ("xfs: add
> capability check to free eofblocks ioctl") is a security fix that was
> never sent to -stable? From what I can see, it was introduced in 3.8
> by 8ca149de80478441352a8622ea15fae7de703ced ("xfs: add
> XFS_IOC_FREE_EOFBLOCKS ioctl").
> 
> I don't see this in the 3.8.y tree. Should it be added there and newer?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> -Kees
> 

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