Re: [ 22/42] sched/debug: Fix sd->*_idx limit range avoidingoverflow

[Ben Hutchings]

On Fri, 2013-05-10 at 09:59 +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> * Ben Hutchings <ben@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, 2013-04-23 at 14:52 -0700, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > > 3.8-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
> > > 
> > > ------------------
> > > 
> > > From: libin <huawei.libin@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > > 
> > > commit fd9b86d37a600488dbd80fe60cca46b822bff1cd upstream.
> > > 
> > > Commit 201c373e8e ("sched/debug: Limit sd->*_idx range on
> > > sysctl") was an incomplete bug fix.
> > [...]
> > 
> > It seems like both these commits ought to be applied to earlier stable
> > branches.  Or was the lack of range checking a regression after 3.4?
> 
> Both should be applied indeed.
> 
> They are not a huge problem as all these facilities are for debugging and 
> are root-only, but the two fixes should be applied together or not at all.

I've queued up both of these for 3.2.

Ben.

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Ben Hutchings
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