Re: [PATCH 3.16 000/357] 3.16.4-stable review

[Chuck Ebbert]

On Sun, 5 Oct 2014 13:39:14 -0700
Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Sat, Oct 04, 2014 at 07:38:39AM -0500, Chuck Ebbert wrote:
> > On Fri,  3 Oct 2014 14:26:26 -0700
> > Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > 
> > > ---------------------------------
> > > Note: This is a big stable release.  Mostly my fault for being on the
> > > road last week, combined with an unusually large number of patches being
> > > tagged for the stable tree.  Anyway, I've caught up with all pending
> > > patches before 3.17-rc7, so if you have marked something for the stable
> > > tree that I have not applied, or emailed the stable@xxxxx list asking
> > > for a patch, that is not here, please let me know.
> > > ---------------------------------
> > > 
> > > This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 3.16.4 release.
> > > There are 357 patches in this series, all will be posted as a response
> > > to this one.  If anyone has any issues with these being applied, please
> > > let me know.
> > > 
> > > Responses should be made by Sun Oct  5 21:28:42 UTC 2014.
> > > Anything received after that time might be too late.
> > > 
> > 
> > Should also include this one, which fixes CVE-2014-6410:
> > 
> > commit c03aa9f6e1f938618e6db2e23afef0574efeeb65
> > Author: Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx>
> > Date:   Thu Sep 4 14:06:55 2014 +0200
> > 
> >     udf: Avoid infinite loop when processing indirect ICBs
> 
> Thanks, I'll queue that up for the next stable releases.
> 
> greg k-h

I built 3.16.4-rc1 for Fedora, which already has this patch included.

It boots and runs on Fedora 21, and that patch has been in Fedora 21 for
a while. Why not include it in 3.16.4?
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