Re: CVE-2023-52666: ksmbd: fix potential circular locking issue in smb2_set_ea()

From: Wang Zhaolong
Date: Tue Jun 11 2024 - 07:30:31 EST




The Linux kernel CVE team recommends that you update to the latest
stable kernel version for this, and many other bugfixes. Individual
changes are never tested alone, but rather are part of a larger kernel
release. Cherry-picking individual commits is not recommended or
supported by the Linux kernel community at all. If however, updating to
the latest release is impossible, the individual changes to resolve this
issue can be found at these commits:
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5349fd419e4f685d609c85b781f2b70f0fb14848
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e61fc656ceeaec65f19a92f0ffbeb562b7941e8d
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e9ec6665de8f706b4f4133b87b2bd02a159ec57b
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ecfd93955994ecc2a1308f5ee4bd90c7fca9a8c6
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6fc0a265e1b932e5e97a038f99e29400a93baad0

Hello.

Is this a valid CVE patch?

I noticed that the introduced `get_write` is not being used within the
function, and there are no follow-up patches addressing this.

Best regards,

Wang Zhaolong