ACK: [PATCH Xenial 00/11] CVE-2015-8952

[Kleber Souza]

On 11/16/17 17:17, Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo wrote:
> Besides the patches that introduce mbcache2 and use it on ext2 and ext4, some
> followups that are referred in some of the CVE links were backported as well.
> 
> I have tested a xattr stress tool without the patches, which caused hangs. With
> the patches, no hangs were seen, and the system was stable during the tests.
> 
> Andreas Gruenbacher (3):
>   ext4: kill ext4_mballoc_ready
>   mbcache: get rid of _e_hash_list_head
>   mbcache: add reusable flag to cache entries
> 
> Jan Kara (8):
>   mbcache2: reimplement mbcache
>   ext2: convert to mbcache2
>   ext4: convert to mbcache2
>   mbcache2: limit cache size
>   mbcache2: Use referenced bit instead of LRU
>   ext4: shortcut setting of xattr to the same value
>   mbcache: remove mbcache
>   mbcache2: rename to mbcache
> 
>  fs/ext2/ext2.h          |    3 +
>  fs/ext2/super.c         |   25 +-
>  fs/ext2/xattr.c         |  139 +++---
>  fs/ext2/xattr.h         |   21 +-
>  fs/ext4/super.c         |   19 +-
>  fs/ext4/xattr.c         |  165 ++++---
>  fs/ext4/xattr.h         |    3 +-
>  fs/mbcache.c            | 1093 +++++++++++++++--------------------------------
>  include/linux/mbcache.h |   93 ++--
>  9 files changed, 577 insertions(+), 984 deletions(-)
> 

Most of patches are clean cherry-picks, good test results with some
performance improvements.

Acked-by: Kleber Sacilotto de Souza <kleber.souza at canonical.com>