One of these patches is for a CVE: CVE-2015-5697
I'm not convinced it is serious (data leak from CAP_SYS_ADMIN ioctl)
but as people seem to want to back-port it, I've included a minimal
version here. The remainder of that patch from Benjamin is
code-cleanup and will arrive in the 4.3 merge window.
NeilBrown
The following changes since commit 74d33293e467df61de1b1d8b2fbe29e550dec33b:
Linux 4.2-rc5 (2015-08-02 18:34:55 -0700)
are available in the git repository at:
git://neil.brown.name/md/ tags/md/4.2-rc5-fixes
for you to fetch changes up to 49895bcc7e566ba455eb2996607d6fbd3447ce16:
md/raid5: don't let shrink_slab shrink too far. (2015-08-03 17:10:56
+1000)
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Three more fixes for md in 4.2
Mostly corner-case stuff.
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Benjamin Randazzo (1):
md: use kzalloc() when bitmap is disabled
NeilBrown (2):
md/raid1: extend spinlock to protect raid1_end_read_request
against inconsistencies
md/raid5: don't let shrink_slab shrink too far.
drivers/md/md.c | 2 +-
drivers/md/raid1.c | 10 ++++++----
drivers/md/raid5.c | 5 +++--
3 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
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