Re: [PATCH] exec: Fix mem leak in kernel_read_file

On Mon, Mar 04, 2019 at 11:17:38PM +0100, Thibaut Sautereau wrote:

Commit f612acfae86af7ecad754ae6a46019be9da05b8e upstream ("exec: Fix mem leak in kernel_read_file"), addressing CVE-2019-8980, should be applied to 4.20, 4.19, 4.14 and 4.9 stable kernels.

Any reason you didn't cc: the authors of that patch?

And as it _just_ went into Linus's tree today, give us a few weeks to get it backported...

Also, it's just a "normal" syzbot fix, for a very rare case, why is this a CVE?

thanks,

greg k-h