ACK: [PATCH 0/2][CVE-2016-4565] IB/security: Restrict use of the write() interface

Chris J Arges chris.j.arges at canonical.com
Thu May 26 11:56:01 UTC 2016


Acked for both patches.
Backports looks good, make sense and are documented.
--chris

On Thu, May 26, 2016 at 12:20:10PM +0100, Luis Henriques wrote:
> Following this email I am sending the CVE-2016-4565 fix backports for
> Precise and Trusty.
> 
> Both of these backports drop the changes to the HFI driver, which was
> merged into the 4.3 kernel only.  The Precise backport also adds a new
> header file (include/rdma/ib.h) that will contain a single inline
> function.
> 
> Jason Gunthorpe (1):
>   IB/security: Restrict use of the write() interface
> 
>  drivers/infiniband/core/ucm.c            |  4 ++++
>  drivers/infiniband/core/ucma.c           |  3 +++
>  drivers/infiniband/core/uverbs_main.c    |  5 +++++
>  drivers/infiniband/hw/qib/qib_file_ops.c |  5 +++++
>  include/rdma/ib.h                        | 16 ++++++++++++++++
>  5 files changed, 33 insertions(+)
> 
> 
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