2019-05-23 20:52:15

by Mark Salyzyn

Subject: Please cherrypick 592acbf1682128 to 3.18.y and 4.4.y

Cherry pick security-related fix
592acbf16821288ecdc4192c47e3774a4c48bb64 ("ext4: zero out the unused
memory region in the extent tree block") to 3.18.y and 4.4.y

The cherry-pick is clean and requires no back-porting. Is already
present in 4.9.y+

Signed-off-by: Mark Salyzyn<[email protected]>

To: stable <[email protected]> # 3.18.y 4.4.y

Cc: LKML <[email protected]>

2019-05-24 05:56:19

by Greg Kroah-Hartman

Subject: Re: Please cherrypick 592acbf1682128 to 3.18.y and 4.4.y

On Thu, May 23, 2019 at 01:49:27PM -0700, Mark Salyzyn wrote:
> Cherry pick security-related fix 592acbf16821288ecdc4192c47e3774a4c48bb64
> ("ext4: zero out the unused memory region in the extent tree block") to
> 3.18.y and 4.4.y
>
> The cherry-pick is clean and requires no back-porting. Is already present in
> 4.9.y+
>
> Signed-off-by: Mark Salyzyn<[email protected]>
>
> To: stable <[email protected]> # 3.18.y 4.4.y
>
> Cc: LKML <[email protected]>

It's already in the 4.4 queue. And in my internal 3.18 queue as well.
Need to put that somewhere public soon...

thanks,

greg k-h

2019-05-24 06:31:20

by Greg Kroah-Hartman

Subject: Re: Please cherrypick 592acbf1682128 to 3.18.y and 4.4.y

On Fri, May 24, 2019 at 07:54:09AM +0200, Greg KH wrote:
> On Thu, May 23, 2019 at 01:49:27PM -0700, Mark Salyzyn wrote:
> > Cherry pick security-related fix 592acbf16821288ecdc4192c47e3774a4c48bb64
> > ("ext4: zero out the unused memory region in the extent tree block") to
> > 3.18.y and 4.4.y
> >
> > The cherry-pick is clean and requires no back-porting. Is already present in
> > 4.9.y+
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Mark Salyzyn<[email protected]>
> >
> > To: stable <[email protected]> # 3.18.y 4.4.y
> >
> > Cc: LKML <[email protected]>
>
> It's already in the 4.4 queue. And in my internal 3.18 queue as well.
> Need to put that somewhere public soon...

It's here now:
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/queue-3.18.git/