Re: Please apply 1572e45a924f ("perf/core: Fix the perf_cpu_time ...") to v4.9.y and older

On Wed, May 02, 2018 at 08:11:51AM -0700, Guenter Roeck wrote:

Hi Greg,

upstream commit 1572e45a924f ("perf/core: Fix the perf_cpu_time_max_percent check") fixes CVE-2017-18255. Please apply to v4.9.y and older.

The patch applies cleanly to v4.9.y and v4.4.y; I didn't check older kernels. More recent kernels are not affected.

Now queued up, thanks.

greg k-h