[linux-cifs-client] Re: [PATCH 0/5] cifs: unicode related buffer overrun fixes for -stable

[Steve French]

On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 6:32 AM, Suresh Jayaraman <sjayaraman at suse.de> wrote:
> Hi Steve,
>
> Here's a minimal list of fixes that both Jeff and I think should go for
> -stable. All of these are addressing destination buffer overruns.
>
> I have mostly refreshed the identitied commits from upstream/cifs-2.6,
> taken as-is/few relevant chunks. Patch 4/5 needs attention as upstream
> fixes this differently. And 5/5 already has -stable in the CC.
>
> 01-cifs-fix-buffer-size-for-nativeFileSystem
> 02-cifs-fix-temp-buffer-size-in-cifs_readdir
> 03-cifs-fix-dest-buffer-size-in-cifs_strncpy_to_host
> 04-cifs-fix-cifs_convertUCSpath
> 05-cifs-fix-unicode-string-alignment-in-session-setup
>
> I've not CC-ed stable. Once you ACK these (add/remove patches), we could
> ask stable to include these patches.

Looks good.

Acked-by: Steve French <sfrench at us.ibm.com>



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Thanks,

Steve