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Re: [PATCH] efi-pstore: Fix read iter after pstore API refactor

From Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: [PATCH] efi-pstore: Fix read iter after pstore API refactor
Date 2017-05-18 15:10 +0200
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On Thu, May 18, 2017 at 3:35 AM, Ard Biesheuvel
<ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org> wrote:
> On 12 May 2017 at 22:58, Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> wrote:
>> During the internal pstore API refactoring, the EFI vars read entry was
>> accidentally made to update a stack variable instead of the pstore
>> private data pointer. This corrects the problem (and removes the now
>> needless argument).
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
>
> Does this need a cc stable?

No, the refactor first appeared in 4.12-rc1.

-Kees

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Kees Cook
Pixel Security

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[PATCH] efi-pstore: Fix read iter after pstore API refactor Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> - 2017-05-13 00:00 +0200
  Re: [PATCH] efi-pstore: Fix read iter after pstore API refactor Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org> - 2017-05-18 12:40 +0200
    Re: [PATCH] efi-pstore: Fix read iter after pstore API refactor Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> - 2017-05-18 15:10 +0200
      Re: [PATCH] efi-pstore: Fix read iter after pstore API refactor Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org> - 2017-05-18 18:20 +0200
        Re: [PATCH] efi-pstore: Fix read iter after pstore API refactor Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> - 2017-05-18 18:50 +0200
          Re: [PATCH] efi-pstore: Fix read iter after pstore API refactor Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org> - 2017-05-19 15:40 +0200

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