[SRU][Trusty][PATCH 0/2] Fix for CVE-2017-12190

Kleber Sacilotto de Souza kleber.souza at canonical.com
Fri Dec 8 13:37:54 UTC 2017


Patch 1/2 is a simple backport to adjust for the file name and context.

Patch 2/2 needed backport to adjust for context, and because Xenial kernel is
still using page_cache_release() instead of put_page().

https://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/2017/CVE-2017-12190.html

Al Viro (1):
  more bio_map_user_iov() leak fixes

Vitaly Mayatskikh (1):
  fix unbalanced page refcounting in bio_map_user_iov

 fs/bio.c | 22 +++++++++++++++++-----
 1 file changed, 17 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

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2.14.1





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