Re: [request for stable inclusion 3.10 and 3.12] Fix CVE-2014-8173

From: Jiri Slaby
Date: Mon May 04 2015 - 09:48:26 EST


On 03/20/2015, 08:49 AM, Wang Long wrote:
> Hi Greg and Jiri,
>
> The following patch commit ee53664bda169f519ce3c6a22d378f0b946c8178
>
> mm: Fix NULL pointer dereference in madvise(MADV_WILLNEED) support
>
> fix CVE-2014-8173. I wish you could merge this fix into stable 3.10
> and 3.12, because the linux kernel before 3.13 on NUMA systems
> is affected by it.

Now applied to 3.12. Thanks!

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js
suse labs
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