[SRU][Xenial][PATCH] UBUNTU: SAUCE: Add missing hunks from "bpf: fix branch pruning logic"

Seth Forshee seth.forshee at canonical.com
Mon Apr 16 12:42:13 UTC 2018


On Mon, Apr 16, 2018 at 09:24:08AM +0200, Juerg Haefliger wrote:
> On 04/13/2018 02:21 PM, Seth Forshee wrote:
> > BugLink: http://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1763454
> > 
> > At the time this commit was backported some of the code it
> > modifies was not present. When the code was later introduced from
> > upstream stable it did not get the changes from this commit.
> > Backport those changes now.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Seth Forshee <seth.forshee at canonical.com>
> 
> Shouldn't this have the CVE identifier or did I misunderstand that this
> is part of a backported CVE fix?

Maybe ... it is part of the CVE fix, though I don't believe the
omission leaves the kernel vulnerable to the CVE. I guess maybe it
should have the id though.

Want me to resend or just want to add it when applying? The CVE id is
CVE-2017-17862.




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