ACK: [PATCH 0/2] [CVE-2016-4565 v2] IB/security: Restrict use of the write() interface

[Christopher Arges]

--chris

On Thu, May 26, 2016 at 05:44:19PM +0100, Luis Henriques wrote:
> Following this email I am sending version 2 of the CVE-2016-4565 fix
> backports for Precise, Trusty and LTS-Utopic (which I failed to send in
> version 1 of these backports).
> 
> Both of these backports drop the changes to the HFI driver, which was
> merged into the 4.3 kernel only.  The Precise backport also adds a new
> header file (include/rdma/ib.h) that will contain a single inline
> function.
> 
> The extra change from v1 is in the ipath driver.  This driver is not
> modified in the original patch because it was moved to staging in 4.3
> (6f9b38903c06 "IB/ipath: Deprecate ipath driver and move to staging.") and
> then in 4.5 it was completely removed from the git tree (b85d9905a7ca
> "staging/rdma: remove deprecated ipath driver").
> 
> Jason Gunthorpe (1):
>   IB/security: Restrict use of the write() interface
> 
>  drivers/infiniband/core/ucm.c                |  4 ++++
>  drivers/infiniband/core/ucma.c               |  3 +++
>  drivers/infiniband/core/uverbs_main.c        |  5 +++++
>  drivers/infiniband/hw/ipath/ipath_file_ops.c |  5 +++++
>  drivers/infiniband/hw/qib/qib_file_ops.c     |  5 +++++
>  include/rdma/ib.h                            | 16 ++++++++++++++++
>  6 files changed, 38 insertions(+)
> 
> 
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