Thread (4 messages) 4 messages, 2 authors, 2019-06-20

Re: [PATCH AUTOSEL 5.1 35/70] loop: Don't change loop device under exclusive opener

From: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
Date: 2019-06-19 20:11:40
Also in: lkml, stable

On Mon, Jun 10, 2019 at 11:00:13AM +0200, Jan Kara wrote:
On Sat 08-06-19 07:39:14, Sasha Levin wrote:
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From: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>

[ Upstream commit 33ec3e53e7b1869d7851e59e126bdb0fe0bd1982 ]
Please don't push this to stable kernels because...
I've dropped this, but...
quoted
[Deliberately chosen not to CC stable as a user with priviledges to
trigger this race has other means of taking the system down and this
has a potential of breaking some weird userspace setup]
... of this. Thanks!
Can't this be triggered by an "innocent" user, rather as part of an
attack? Why can't this race happen during regular usage?

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Thanks,
Sasha
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