2022-03-21 22:15:22

by Tadeusz Struk

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Subject: Re: Patch "esp: Fix possible buffer overflow in ESP transformation" has been added to the 4.19-stable tree

On 3/21/22 06:12, Greg KH wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 21, 2022 at 01:37:08PM +0100, [email protected] wrote:
>>
>> This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
>>
>> esp: Fix possible buffer overflow in ESP transformation
>>
>> to the 4.19-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:
>> esp-fix-possible-buffer-overflow-in-esp-transformation.patch
>> and it can be found in the queue-4.19 subdirectory.
>>
>> If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
>> please let <[email protected]> know about it.
>
> Oops, nope, sorry this breaks the build on 5.4 and older kernels, now
> dropped.

Yes, that is for 5.10 only.

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Thanks,
Tadeusz


2022-03-22 12:10:35

by Greg KH

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Subject: Re: Patch "esp: Fix possible buffer overflow in ESP transformation" has been added to the 4.19-stable tree

On Mon, Mar 21, 2022 at 07:47:20AM -0700, Tadeusz Struk wrote:
> On 3/21/22 06:12, Greg KH wrote:
> > On Mon, Mar 21, 2022 at 01:37:08PM +0100, [email protected] wrote:
> > >
> > > This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
> > >
> > > esp: Fix possible buffer overflow in ESP transformation
> > >
> > > to the 4.19-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:
> > > esp-fix-possible-buffer-overflow-in-esp-transformation.patch
> > > and it can be found in the queue-4.19 subdirectory.
> > >
> > > If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
> > > please let <[email protected]> know about it.
> >
> > Oops, nope, sorry this breaks the build on 5.4 and older kernels, now
> > dropped.
>
> Yes, that is for 5.10 only.

Can you provide a working backport for 4.14, 4.19, and 5.4? They also
are affected here.

thanks,

greg k-h