ACK: [SRU][N][PATCH 0/1] CVE-2024-35984

Thibault Ferrante thibault.ferrante at canonical.com
Wed Jun 26 08:33:26 UTC 2024


On 25-06-2024 22:57, Bethany Jamison wrote:
> [Impact]
> 
> i2c: smbus: fix NULL function pointer dereference
> 
> Baruch reported an OOPS when using the designware controller as target
> only. Target-only modes break the assumption of one transfer function
> always being available. Fix this by always checking the pointer in
> __i2c_transfer.
> 
> [Fix]
> 
> Noble:	Clean cherry-pick from linux-6.8.y
> Jammy:	pending
> Focal:	pending
> Bionic:	fix sent to esm ML
> Xenial:	fix sent to esm ML
> Trusty:	not affected
> 
> [Test Case]
> 
> Compile and boot tested
> 
> [Where problems could occur]
> 
> This fix affects those who use I2C protocol, an issue with this
> fix would be visible to the user via unexpected system behavior
> or a system crash.
> 
> Wolfram Sang (1):
>    i2c: smbus: fix NULL function pointer dereference
> 
>   drivers/i2c/i2c-core-base.c | 12 ++++++------
>   1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
> 

Acked-by: Thibault Ferrante <thibault.ferrante at canonical.com>

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Thibault



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