APPLIED[D]: [PATCH 0/1][SRU][B/C/D/Unstable] CVE-2019-8980 - VFS memory leak

[Seth Forshee]

On Tue, Mar 05, 2019 at 03:14:31PM +0000, Tyler Hicks wrote:
> https://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/?cve=CVE-2019-8980
> 
>  A memory leak in the kernel_read_file function in fs/exec.c in the Linux
>  kernel through 4.20.11 allows attackers to cause a denial of service
>  (memory consumption) by triggering vfs_read failures.
> 
> Clean cherry pick. Build logs are clean. Smoke tested by booting Bionic and
> Cosmic test kernels.

Applied to disco. Unstable is idle at the moment since we've
moved 5.0 to disco/master-next. Thanks!