Re: Patch "ipc/mqueue.c: change __do_notify() to bypass check_kill_permission()" has been added to the 4.14-stable tree

From: Greg KH
Date: Wed May 13 2020 - 02:43:04 EST


On Tue, May 12, 2020 at 08:51:16PM -0400, Sasha Levin wrote:
> This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
>
> ipc/mqueue.c: change __do_notify() to bypass check_kill_permission()
>
> to the 4.14-stable tree which can be found at:
> http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
>
> The filename of the patch is:
> ipc-mqueue.c-change-__do_notify-to-bypass-check_kill.patch
> and it can be found in the queue-4.14 subdirectory.
>
> If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
> please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.

Nope, this breaks the build for 4.14, so I've dropped it.

greg k-h