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Re: [alsa-devel] [PATCH] ALSA: msnd: Optimize / harden DSP and MIDI loops

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On Tue, Sep 12, 2017 at 09:17:38AM +0200, Takashi Iwai wrote:
> On Fri, 08 Sep 2017 19:47:32 +0200,
> Grygorii Tertychnyi (gtertych) wrote:
> > 
> > 
> > >> Hi Greg,
> > >>
> > >> Could you please apply it for 4.4-stable.
> > >> This fixes https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-9985
> > >
> > > This vulnerability is just non-issue.  You can't get it working
> > > practically; it requires a modified hardware of the decade old ISA
> > > sound card, and yet the system has to load / set up the module
> > > beforehand.  We should withdraw it from CVE, IMO.
> > 
> > I think it is worth having it in 4.4, 4.9 and 4.12 also.
> 
> ... even though the code has never been tested on the real hardware?
> That doesn't sound good for stable kernels at all.  That's why I
> didn't put Cc to stable in the patch.

Oh, I didn't know that, want me to drop the patch from the stable queues
now?

thanks,

greg k-h

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Re: [alsa-devel] [PATCH] ALSA: msnd: Optimize / harden DSP and MIDI    loops Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de> - 2017-09-12 09:20 +0200
  Re: [alsa-devel] [PATCH] ALSA: msnd: Optimize / harden DSP and MIDI  loops "gregkh@linuxfoundation.org" <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> - 2017-09-12 14:40 +0200
    Re: [alsa-devel] [PATCH] ALSA: msnd: Optimize / harden DSP and MIDI loops Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de> - 2017-09-12 14:40 +0200

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