Re: Porting fix for CVE-2024-38545 to linux-5.15.y

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman
Date: Thu Sep 12 2024 - 01:05:52 EST


On Thu, Sep 12, 2024 at 11:33:47AM +0800, Yan, Haixiao (CN) wrote:
> Hello Greg,
>
> Could you help to porting
>
> https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git/commit/?id=a942ec2745ca864cd8512142100e4027dc306a42
>
> to the stable version linux-5.15.y

Please provide a backported, and tested patch, for that and submit it to
stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx as the documentation states if you wish to have
it in that kernel version.

And why just 5.15? Why not older kernels?

thanks,

greg k-h