ACK: [SRU][Trusty][Artful][PATCH 0/1] Fix for CVE-2017-1000407

[Kleber Souza]

On 01/26/18 18:15, Khaled Elmously wrote:
> On 2018-01-26 17:57:56 , Kleber Sacilotto de Souza wrote:
>> https://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/2017/CVE-2017-1000407.html
>>
>> Clean cherry-pick for Artful, a simple backport for Trusty since the bit was
>> cleared originally in a different function. The fix for Xenial is queued as
>> part of upstream stable update to 4.4.106.
>>
>> Andrew Honig (1):
>>   KVM: VMX: remove I/O port 0x80 bypass on Intel hosts
>>
>>  arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c | 5 -----
>>  1 file changed, 5 deletions(-)
>>
> 
> Wouldn't these patches complicate the stable-update pull? Do the stable updates need to be redone now after these fixes?

4.13 didn't get this fix on the stable tree and it stopped receiving
stable updates, so we should be good and have no conflicts :-).


Kleber

> 
> Acked-by: Khalid Elmously <khalid.elmously at canonical.com> 
>