Re: patch hfsplus-check-read_mapping_page-return-value.patch addedto 2.6.27-stable tree

From: Greg KH
Date: Tue Nov 11 2008 - 20:10:40 EST


On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 01:17:29AM +0100, Stefan Lippers-Hollmann wrote:
> Hi
>
> On Dienstag, 11. November 2008, gregkh@xxxxxxx wrote:
> >
> > This is a note to let you know that we have just queued up the patch titled
> >
> > Subject: hfsplus: check read_mapping_page() return value (CVE-2008-4934)
> >
> > to the 2.6.27-stable tree. Its filename is
> >
> > hfsplus-check-read_mapping_page-return-value.patch
> >
> > A git repo of this tree can be found at
> > http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
> >
> >
> > From 649f1ee6c705aab644035a7998d7b574193a598a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> > From: Eric Sesterhenn <snakebyte@xxxxxx>
> > Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2008 22:04:10 -0700
> > Subject: hfsplus: check read_mapping_page() return value (CVE-2008-4934)
> >
> > From: Eric Sesterhenn <snakebyte@xxxxxx>
> >
> > commit 649f1ee6c705aab644035a7998d7b574193a598a upstream.
>
> This exact patch is already present in 2.6.27.5 and subsequently fails to
> apply.

Yeah, I messed up, sorry about that. Now dropped.

greg k-h
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