ACK/Cmt: [SRU][F/J/K/L][PATCH 0/1] CVE-2023-31084

Roxana Nicolescu roxana.nicolescu at canonical.com
Fri Jul 28 07:13:09 UTC 2023


On 27/07/2023 21:57, Yuxuan Luo wrote:
> [Impact]
> It was discovered that the DVB Core driver in the Linux kernel did not
> properly handle locking events in certain situations. A local attacker
> could use this to cause a denial of service (kernel deadlock).
>
> [Backport]
> Clean cherry-pick.
>
> [Test]
> Smoke tested against dvb-fe-tool.
Maybe give more details how you tested it. Smoke tested does not say 
much to me.
>
> [Potential Regression]
> Expect minimal regression potential.
>
>
> Takashi Iwai (1):
>    media: dvb-core: Fix kernel WARNING for blocking operation in
>      wait_event*()
>
>   drivers/media/dvb-core/dvb_frontend.c | 16 ++++++++++++----
>   1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
>
>
Acked-by: Roxana Nicolescu <roxana.nicolescu at canonical.com>



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