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| author | Ben Hutchings <benh@debian.org> | 2017-08-01 00:58:38 +0000 |
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| committer | Ben Hutchings <benh@debian.org> | 2017-08-01 00:58:38 +0000 |
| commit | eae9ec99c097b481c431271c1d78eae7b6597200 (patch) | |
| tree | b1776232eb0b7ed76bccfc7b4a1c7d7c7e5a67a9 /retired/CVE-2015-8952 | |
| parent | 9a0e561b315801d76b71913fbad8a52c8422b008 (diff) | |
Retire issues that are released, ignored or N/A on all branches
git-svn-id: svn+ssh://svn.debian.org/svn/kernel-sec@5445 e094ebfe-e918-0410-adfb-c712417f3574
Diffstat (limited to 'retired/CVE-2015-8952')
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1 files changed, 23 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/retired/CVE-2015-8952 b/retired/CVE-2015-8952 new file mode 100644 index 00000000..c8c14a4d --- /dev/null +++ b/retired/CVE-2015-8952 @@ -0,0 +1,23 @@ +Description: +References: + https://lwn.net/Articles/668718/ + 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 will mitigate this with cond_resched() as suggested in comment 1 + bwh> on the bz.k.o bug report. I didn't want to add the no_mbcache mount + bwh> option as in comment 12 because it's a uAPI extension, but it has + bwh> now been added upstream (commit cdb7ee4c6327) so I think it would be + bwh> reasonable to add it to supported stable releases. + bwh> The problem seems to have been introduced (or exacerbated) by commit + bwh> 1f3e55fe02d1 in 3.15, which added a retry loop in mb_cache_entry_alloc(). +Bugs: +upstream: released (4.6-rc1) [f9a61eb4e2471c56a63cd804c7474128138c38ac, 82939d7999dfc1f1998c4b1c12e2f19edbdff272, be0726d33cb8f411945884664924bed3cb8c70ee] +4.9-upstream-stable: N/A "Fixed before branch point" +3.16-upstream-stable: ignored "Too intrusive to backport" +3.2-upstream-stable: ignored "Too intrusive to backport, and seems to be minor issue" +sid: released (4.6.1-1) +4.9-stretch-security: N/A "Fixed before branching point" +3.16-jessie-security: ignored "Too intrusive to backport, but will be mitigated" +3.2-wheezy-security: ignored "Too intrusive to backport, and seems to be minor issue" |