[kernel-sec-discuss] r5698 - active

[Ben Hutchings]

Author: benh
Date: 2017-11-05 17:54:49 +0000 (Sun, 05 Nov 2017)
New Revision: 5698

Modified:
   active/CVE-2017-15265
Log:
Note another important fix for ALSA seq driver

Modified: active/CVE-2017-15265
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--- active/CVE-2017-15265	2017-11-05 17:42:22 UTC (rev 5697)
+++ active/CVE-2017-15265	2017-11-05 17:54:49 UTC (rev 5698)
@@ -6,6 +6,8 @@
 Notes:
  bwh> The bug appears to have been introduced in 2.6.9 by "ALSA CVS update
  bwh> ... Unlock BKL in ioctl callback to avoid the long preempt-disabling."
+ bwh> For !SMP configurations, commit 8009d506a1dd "ALSA: seq: Enable 'use'
+ bwh> locking in all configurations" is also needed.
 Bugs:
 upstream: released (4.14-rc5) [71105998845fb012937332fe2e806d443c09e026]
 4.9-upstream-stable: released (4.9.57) [35b84860667ff081eee56b62f3db2a28ca8a3823]