Hi Vivek,
On 7/1/19 8:32 AM, Vivek Goyal wrote:
On Fri, Jun 28, 2019 at 11:45:40AM -0700, Srivatsa S. Bhat wrote:
Hi,
This patchset includes a few backported fixes for the 4.4 stable tree. I would appreciate if you could kindly consider including them in the next release.
Thank you!
Regards, Srivatsa
Gen Zhang (2): ip_sockglue: Fix missing-check bug in ip_ra_control() ipv6_sockglue: Fix a missing-check bug in ip6_ra_control()
Vivek Goyal (1): ovl: modify ovl_permission() to do checks on two inodes
Hi Srivatsa,
Curious, why are you backporting above patch. These changes were done in a series primarily to support SELinux with overlay. Are you fixing a particular issue with this single patch?
Sorry for the late reply. I backported this patch because it fixes CVE-2018-16597.
Regards, Srivatsa