Re: [v3.12.y][v3.13.y-ckt][3.14.y][3.16.y-ckt][3.18.y][3.19.y][V2][PATCH 0/1] n_tty: Fix read buffer overwrite when no newline

[Kamal Mostafa]

On Thu, 2015-04-16 at 14:57 -0400, Joseph Salisbury wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> Please consider including mainline commit fb5ef9e7da39968fec6d6f37f20a23d23740c75e 
> in the next v3.12.y, v3.13.y-ckt, v3.14.y, 3.16.y-ckt, 3.18.y, and 3.19.y stable releases.  
> It was included mainline as of v4.0-rc1.  It has been tested and confirmed to resolve
> http://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1381005 .  This bug was introduced in v3.12-rc1 when 
> commit 24a89d1 was applied.  This commit is not needed in stable kernels prior to 
> v3.12.y.
> 
> 
> commit fb5ef9e7da39968fec6d6f37f20a23d23740c75e
> Author: Peter Hurley <peter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date:   Fri Jan 16 15:05:39 2015 -0500
> 
>     n_tty: Fix read buffer overwrite when no newline
> 
> 
> This commit does not apply cleanly to the kernels versions mentined, so I performed 
> a backport, which is in email 1/1.
> 
> The 3.12.y and 3.13.y-ckt stable releases first need a cherry pick of commit
> 5c32d12378313e0096ea0d450462aa638a90fb6e.  This is because in commit 5c32d123
> n_tty_receive_buf and n_tty_receive_buf2 were merged into n_tty_receive_buf_common,
> which is where the backport makes the needed changes. 
> 
> 
> Sincerely,
> 
> Joseph Salisbury
> 
> Peter Hurley (1):
>   n_tty: Fix read buffer overwrite when no newline
> 
>  drivers/tty/n_tty.c | 106 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-------------
>  1 file changed, 79 insertions(+), 27 deletions(-)
> 

Queued up for 3.13-stable.  Thanks, Joseph and Peter!

 -Kamal


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