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Comment 13 for bug 1789131

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Sarah Newman (srn-f) wrote : Re: [Bug 1789131] Re: Probable regression with EXT3 file systems and CVE-2018-1093 patches

On 08/28/2018 09:49 AM, Joseph Salisbury wrote:
> This is probably the fix:
> 22be37acce25 ext4: fix bitmap position validation
>
> I built a test kernel with commit 22be37acce25. The test kernel can be downloaded from:
> http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~jsalisbury/lp1789131
>
> Can you test this kernel and see if it resolves this bug?

Yes, it does.

Out of curiosity, how do you think this was missed originally? It's in the 3.16 LTS tree.