[Trusty][SRU][PATCH 0/1] cifs: mask off top byte in get_rfc1002_length()

Joseph Salisbury joseph.salisbury at canonical.com
Tue Sep 30 18:10:35 UTC 2014


BugLink: http://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1372482


== Trusty SRU Justification ==
A patch to the CIFS driver between Ubuntu-3.13.0-35.62 and Ubuntu-3.13.0-36.63, commit e42d08d467e1ca772eeb8cb5694920c287a4b1f0 (cifs: sanity check length of data to send before sending), introduced a regression reported by this bug.  Commit dca1c8d, introduced in v3.14-rc7 upstream, resolves this bug.

== Fix ==
commit dca1c8d17a2feae056f9e334ea75a462ae4cb52a
Author: Jeff Layton <jlayton at redhat.com>
Date:   Sat Feb 22 19:35:38 2014 -0500

    cifs: mask off top byte in get_rfc1002_length()



== Test Case ==
A test kernel was built with this patch and tested by the original bug reporter as well as others affected by this bug.  The bug reporter states the test kernel resolved the bug.

Jeff Layton (1):
  cifs: mask off top byte in get_rfc1002_length()

 fs/cifs/cifsglob.h | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

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