The first patch is a bugfix for race condition.
The second patch is the fix for CVE-2015-7872.
Backport first one will make second CVE fix directly cherry-picked.
Stable 3.2.y has included these 2 patches in v3.2.73.
Stable 3.1x.y and 4.1.y can cherry-pick these 2 patches.
Stable 3.4.y can cherry-pick the backported patches in 3.2.y which
ID are below:
a6826ecbeab9c832ed742653de895ad4de61c858
KEYS: Fix crash when attempt to garbage collect an uninstantiated keyring
650f6aa8c3c805bd41c4243aadbd63558f39fd32
KEYS: Fix race between key destruction and finding a keyring by name
David Howells (2):
KEYS: Fix race between key destruction and finding a keyring by name
KEYS: Fix crash when attempt to garbage collect an uninstantiated
keyring
security/keys/gc.c | 10 ++++++----
1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
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