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

[Khaled Elmously]

On 2018-01-29 10:30:36 , Kleber Souza wrote:
> 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 :-).
> 
> 

I guess I was wondering more about Trust (4.4) not 4.13. No worries though, we'll cross that bridge when we get to it.
Still ACK


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