Re: requesting stable backport of BPF security fix (commit dd066823db2ac4e22f721ec85190817b58059a54)
On 09/25/2018 02:46 PM, Jann Horn wrote:
> Hi!
>
> Per the policy at Documentation/networking/netdev-FAQ.rst, I'm sending
> this to netdev@ and davem, rather than stable@; with a CC to security@
> because I believe that this is a security process issue.
>
> Upstream commit dd066823db2ac4e22f721ec85190817b58059a54
> ("bpf/verifier: disallow pointer subtraction") fixes a security bug
> (kernel pointer leak to unprivileged userspace). The fix has been in
> Linus' tree since about a week ago, but the patch still doesn't appear
> in Greg's linux-4.18.y linux-stable-rc repo, in Greg's 4.18
> stable-queue, or in davem's stable queue at
> http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/bundle/davem/stable/?state=* .
>
> Please queue it up for backporting.
Done & flushed out now, sorry for the delay.
Thanks,
Daniel
requesting stable backport of BPF security fix (commit dd066823db2ac4e22f721ec85190817b58059a54)
Hi!
Per the policy at Documentation/networking/netdev-FAQ.rst, I'm sending
this to netdev@ and davem, rather than stable@; with a CC to security@
because I believe that this is a security process issue.
Upstream commit dd066823db2ac4e22f721ec85190817b58059a54
("bpf/verifier: disallow pointer subtraction") fixes a security bug
(kernel pointer leak to unprivileged userspace). The fix has been in
Linus' tree since about a week ago, but the patch still doesn't appear
in Greg's linux-4.18.y linux-stable-rc repo, in Greg's 4.18
stable-queue, or in davem's stable queue at
http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/bundle/davem/stable/?state=* .
Please queue it up for backporting.
I am curious: Why was this not queued up for stable immediately? Or
was it, and I looked in the wrong place?
