SRU request for LP#137978 (6.0.6 LTS)
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Colin Ian King wrote:
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/137978
>
> SRU Justification:
>
> Impact: Running wine applications from a FAT filesystem causes the wine
> process to get stuck in a kernel "D" state and cannot be killed. This
> prevents a user from unmounting the FAT filesystem.
>
> Fix: Replace a typo in fat_ioctl_readdir() introduced during
> CVE-2007-2878, where the second semaphore down() should in fact be an
> up().
>
> Testcase: Without the patch one can trip the bug by:
>
> 1. Mount any FAT filesystem
> 2. Copy some file.exe file to it.
> 3. Run: wine /media/fattest/file.exe
> 4. Wine hangs and cannot be killed.
>
> With the patch, this works. This has been tested by myself on a cleanly
> installed 6.0.6 LTS i386 Desktop version inside VirtualBox, see note:
>
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/137978/comments/11
>
> Patch attached.
>
>
ACK
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