[kernel-sec-discuss] r4607 - active

[Ben Hutchings]

Author: benh
Date: 2016-08-30 11:49:11 +0000 (Tue, 30 Aug 2016)
New Revision: 4607

Modified:
   active/CVE-2015-8952
Log:
Add note and update status of CVE-2015-8952

Modified: active/CVE-2015-8952
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--- active/CVE-2015-8952	2016-08-30 10:40:59 UTC (rev 4606)
+++ active/CVE-2015-8952	2016-08-30 11:49:11 UTC (rev 4607)
@@ -4,10 +4,14 @@
  https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1360968
  https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=107301
 Notes:
+ bwh> The upstream fix (rewrite of mbcache) is too intrusive to backport.
+ bwh> We could try to mitigate this with cond_resched() as suggested in
+ bwh> comment 1 on the bz.k.o bug report and/or add the no_mbcache mount
+ bwh> option as in comment 6.
 Bugs:
 upstream: released (4.6-rc1) [be0726d33cb8f411945884664924bed3cb8c70ee]
-3.16-upstream-stable: needed
-3.2-upstream-stable:
+3.16-upstream-stable: ignored "Too intrusive to backport"
+3.2-upstream-stable: ignored "Too intrusive to backport"
 sid: released (4.6.1-1)
 3.16-jessie-security: needed
-3.2-wheezy-security:
+3.2-wheezy-security: needed