Re: [git pull] vfs fixes

[Vegard Nossum]

On 9 April 2017 at 07:40, Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> The following changes since commit a71c9a1c779f2499fb2afc0553e543f18aff6edf:
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>   Linux 4.11-rc5 (2017-04-02 17:23:54 -0700)
>
> are available in the git repository at:
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>   git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs.git for-linus
>
> for you to fetch changes up to a8e28440016bfb23bec266c4c66eacca6ea2d48b:
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>   Merge branch 'work.statx' into for-next (2017-04-03 01:06:59 -0400)
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------
> Al Viro (2):
>       alpha: fix stack smashing in old_adjtimex(2)
>       Merge branch 'work.statx' into for-next

I'm seeing the same memfd_create/name_to_handle_at/path_lookupat
use-after-free that Dmitry was seeing here:

https://lkml.org/lkml/2017/3/4/118

I haven't tried the patch from that thread yet, but was there any
reason for it not to get merged so far?


Vegard