Path: csiph.com!usenet.pasdenom.info!aioe.org!bofh.it!news.nic.it!robomod From: NeilBrown Newsgroups: linux.kernel Subject: [GIT PULL REQUEST] md updates for 4.2-rc Date: Wed, 05 Aug 2015 00:20:01 +0200 Message-ID: X-Original-To: Linus Torvalds X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.11.1 (GTK+ 2.24.28; x86_64-suse-linux-gnu) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: robomod@news.nic.it List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Approved: robomod@news.nic.it Lines: 46 Organization: linux.* mail to news gateway X-Original-Cc: lkml , linux-raid , Tomas Papan , Benjamin Randazzo , Josh Boyer , Alexander Lyakas X-Original-Date: Wed, 5 Aug 2015 08:10:22 +1000 X-Original-Message-ID: <20150805081022.0ee9dac5@noble> X-Original-Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org Xref: csiph.com linux.kernel:1200299 One of these patches is for a CVE: CVE-2015-5697 I'm not convinced it is serious (data leak from CAP_SYS_ADMIN ioctl) but as people seem to want to back-port it, I've included a minimal version here. The remainder of that patch from Benjamin is code-cleanup and will arrive in the 4.3 merge window. NeilBrown The following changes since commit 74d33293e467df61de1b1d8b2fbe29e550dec33b: Linux 4.2-rc5 (2015-08-02 18:34:55 -0700) are available in the git repository at: git://neil.brown.name/md/ tags/md/4.2-rc5-fixes for you to fetch changes up to 49895bcc7e566ba455eb2996607d6fbd3447ce16: md/raid5: don't let shrink_slab shrink too far. (2015-08-03 17:10:56 +1000) ---------------------------------------------------------------- Three more fixes for md in 4.2 Mostly corner-case stuff. ---------------------------------------------------------------- Benjamin Randazzo (1): md: use kzalloc() when bitmap is disabled NeilBrown (2): md/raid1: extend spinlock to protect raid1_end_read_request against inconsistencies md/raid5: don't let shrink_slab shrink too far. drivers/md/md.c | 2 +- drivers/md/raid1.c | 10 ++++++---- drivers/md/raid5.c | 5 +++-- 3 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/