Hmm. I just realized when I saw Sasha's autoselect patches flying by that the floppy ioctl fixes didn't get marked for stable, but they probably should be.
There's four commits:
da99466ac243 floppy: fix out-of-bounds read in copy_buffer 9b04609b7840 floppy: fix invalid pointer dereference in drive_name 5635f897ed83 floppy: fix out-of-bounds read in next_valid_format f3554aeb9912 floppy: fix div-by-zero in setup_format_params
that look like stable material - even if I sincerely hope that the floppy driver isn't critical for anybody.
I leave it to the stable people to decide if they care. I don't think the hardware matters any more, but I could imagine that people still use it for some virtual images and have a floppy device inside a VM for that reason.
Linus
On Thu, Jul 18, 2019 at 09:29:06PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
Hmm. I just realized when I saw Sasha's autoselect patches flying by that the floppy ioctl fixes didn't get marked for stable, but they probably should be.
There's four commits:
da99466ac243 floppy: fix out-of-bounds read in copy_buffer 9b04609b7840 floppy: fix invalid pointer dereference in drive_name 5635f897ed83 floppy: fix out-of-bounds read in next_valid_format f3554aeb9912 floppy: fix div-by-zero in setup_format_params
that look like stable material - even if I sincerely hope that the floppy driver isn't critical for anybody.
I leave it to the stable people to decide if they care. I don't think the hardware matters any more, but I could imagine that people still use it for some virtual images and have a floppy device inside a VM for that reason.
Thanks for the reminder, I'll queue these up for the next round of stable releases after the next ones go out in a day or so.
greg k-h
On Fri, Jul 19, 2019 at 07:07:18PM +0200, Greg KH wrote:
On Thu, Jul 18, 2019 at 09:29:06PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
Hmm. I just realized when I saw Sasha's autoselect patches flying by that the floppy ioctl fixes didn't get marked for stable, but they probably should be.
There's four commits:
da99466ac243 floppy: fix out-of-bounds read in copy_buffer 9b04609b7840 floppy: fix invalid pointer dereference in drive_name 5635f897ed83 floppy: fix out-of-bounds read in next_valid_format f3554aeb9912 floppy: fix div-by-zero in setup_format_params
that look like stable material - even if I sincerely hope that the floppy driver isn't critical for anybody.
I leave it to the stable people to decide if they care. I don't think the hardware matters any more, but I could imagine that people still use it for some virtual images and have a floppy device inside a VM for that reason.
Thanks for the reminder, I'll queue these up for the next round of stable releases after the next ones go out in a day or so.
I've queued them up, thanks!
-- Thanks, Sasha
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