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    "date": "2017-09-22T09:11:27",
    "name": "[Xenial,SRU,0/3] Fix CVE-2015-8952",
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        "From": "Shrirang Bagul <shrirang.bagul@canonical.com>",
        "To": "kernel-team@lists.ubuntu.com",
        "Subject": "[Xenial SRU][PATCH 0/3] Fix CVE-2015-8952",
        "Date": "Fri, 22 Sep 2017 17:11:27 +0800",
        "Message-Id": "<20170922091130.15674-1-shrirang.bagul@canonical.com>",
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    "content": "This set of patches fixes CVE-2015-8952. The mbcache2 implementation and\next2 patches are a clean cherry-pick from upstream. The ext4 patch however\nis a backport to accomodate changes from patch:\n  ext4: lock the xattr block before checksuming it\n  (c6d5612f80923170dad06c04736984cc9bcc8568)\nmerged to fix LP:1658633\n\nJan Kara (3):\n  mbcache2: reimplement mbcache\n  ext2: convert to mbcache2\n  ext4: convert to mbcache2\n\n fs/Makefile              |   2 +-\n fs/ext2/ext2.h           |   3 +\n fs/ext2/super.c          |  25 ++--\n fs/ext2/xattr.c          | 143 +++++++++----------\n fs/ext2/xattr.h          |  21 +--\n fs/ext4/ext4.h           |   2 +-\n fs/ext4/super.c          |   7 +-\n fs/ext4/xattr.c          | 136 +++++++++---------\n fs/ext4/xattr.h          |   5 +-\n fs/mbcache2.c            | 359 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++\n include/linux/mbcache2.h |  50 +++++++\n 11 files changed, 577 insertions(+), 176 deletions(-)\n create mode 100644 fs/mbcache2.c\n create mode 100644 include/linux/mbcache2.h"
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