[kernel-sec-discuss] r3775 - active

[Ben Hutchings]

Author: benh
Date: 2015-05-04 20:12:50 +0000 (Mon, 04 May 2015)
New Revision: 3775

Modified:
   active/CVE-2014-8172
Log:
Add missing piece of the fix for CVE-2014-8172

Modified: active/CVE-2014-8172
===================================================================
--- active/CVE-2014-8172	2015-05-04 09:27:06 UTC (rev 3774)
+++ active/CVE-2014-8172	2015-05-04 20:12:50 UTC (rev 3775)
@@ -1,8 +1,12 @@
 Description: soft lockup on aio
 References:
 Notes:
+ bwh> This is fixed by replacing locked access to a doubly-linked list
+ bwh> with a lockless singly-linked list.  First commit (in 3.11) removed
+ bwh> one user; second commit removed the list and related locking
+ bwh> altogether.
 Bugs: 
-upstream: released (3.13) [eee5cc2702929fd41cce28058dc6d6717f723f87]
+upstream: released (3.13) [4f5e65a1cc90bbb15b9f6cdc362922af1bcc155a, eee5cc2702929fd41cce28058dc6d6717f723f87]
 2.6.32-upstream-stable:
 sid: released (3.13.4-1)
 3.16-jessie-security: N/A "Fixed before initial release"