[3.13.y-ckt stable] Patch "splice: Apply generic position and size checks to each write" has been added to staging queue

[Kamal Mostafa]

On Tue, 2015-02-24 at 20:13 +0000, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> On Tue, 2015-02-24 at 12:04 -0800, Kamal Mostafa wrote:
> > Hi Jiri-
> > 
> > FYI, the attached CVE patch (a port of Ben's 3.2 patch, thanks Ben!) is
> > likely suitable for 3.12-stable as well.
> 
> Please check that ocfs2_file_splice_write() is the only splice_write
> implementation that doesn't call generic_file_splice_write().  That
> might possibly have changed at some point after 3.2.

I had done so.  All the other splice_writes did indeed end up resolving
down to generic_file_splice_write(), as of 3.13-stable.

Thanks again Ben!

 -Kamal


> > On Tue, 2015-02-24 at 12:00 -0800, Kamal Mostafa wrote:
> > > This is a note to let you know that I have just added a patch titled
> > > 
> > >     splice: Apply generic position and size checks to each write
> > > 
> > > to the linux-3.13.y-queue branch of the 3.13.y-ckt extended stable tree 
> > > which can be found at:
> > > 
> > >  http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git?p=ubuntu/linux.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/linux-3.13.y-queue
> > > 
> > > This patch is scheduled to be released in version 3.13.11-ckt17.
> > > 
> > > If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to this tree, please 
> > > reply to this email.
> > > 
> > > For more information about the 3.13.y-ckt tree, see
> > > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable
> > > 
> > > Thanks.
> > > -Kamal
> > 
>