Re: [PATCH for v3.18 00/18] Backport CVE-2017-13166 fixes to Kernel 3.18

[Mauro Carvalho Chehab]

Em Thu, 29 Mar 2018 08:22:08 +0900
Inki Dae <inki.dae@xxxxxxxxxxx> escreveu:

> Hi Mauro,
> 
> 2018ë 03ì 29ì 03:12ì Mauro Carvalho Chehab ì(ê) ì ê:
> > Hi Greg,
> > 
> > Those are the backports meant to solve CVE-2017-13166 on Kernel 3.18.
> > 
> > It contains two v4l2-ctrls fixes that are required to avoid crashes
> > at the test application.
> > 
> > I wrote two patches myself for Kernel 3.18 in order to solve some
> > issues specific for Kernel 3.18 with aren't needed upstream.
> > one is actually a one-line change backport. The other one makes
> > sure that both 32-bits and 64-bits version of some ioctl calls
> > will return the same value for a reserved field.
> > 
> > I noticed an extra bug while testing it, but the bug also hits upstream,
> > and should be backported all the way down all stable/LTS versions.
> > So, I'll send it the usual way, after merging upsream.  
> 
> Really thanks for doing this. :) There would be many users who use Linux-3.18 for their products yet.

Anytime!

Please let me know if you find any issues with those backports.

Regards,
Mauro