Re: Re: CVE-2016-5400 - linux kernel: denial of service in airspy USB driver.

[Wade Mealing <wmealing () redhat com>]

> Any reason why this isn't tagged for a stable kernel release?

Patch was sent to airspy maintainer by James Patrick-Evans (The flaw
submitter) on July 17th.  I have no control over maintainers.

LKML process is likely best kept off list.

Thanks,

Wade Mealing

On Mon, Jul 25, 2016 at 11:13 AM, Greg KH <greg () kroah com> wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 25, 2016 at 10:51:16AM +1000, Wade Mealing wrote:
> > Hit send too early,
> >
> >
> > Upstream patch:
> > https://git.linuxtv.org/media_tree.git/commit/?id=eca2d34b9d2ce70165a50510659838e28ca22742
> >
> > Maintainer has yet to send to LKML.
>
> If it's in the media tree, it doesn't go to lkml.
>
> Any reason why this isn't tagged for a stable kernel release?
>
> thanks,
>
> greg k-h