linux-kernel - Re: [Oops 1/2]Something wrong with copy_from

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Date:	Sun, 1 May 2011 09:21:30 +0800
From:	Harry Wei <jiaweiwei.xiyou@...il.com>
To:	Jiri Kosina <jkosina@...e.cz>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, akpm@...ux-foundation.org,
	greg@...ah.com, randy.dunlap@...cle.com, joe@...ches.com
Subject: Re: [Oops 1/2]Something wrong with copy_from_user() function

On Sat, Apr 30, 2011 at 11:13:10PM +0200, Jiri Kosina wrote:
> On Sat, 30 Apr 2011, Harry Wei wrote:
> 
> 
> wpa_set_keys() function (from staging drivers) in your kernel uses 
> copy_from_user() without proper bounds checking, and thus can overflow and 
> corrupt memory.
Hmmm, i see.

Thanks.
Harry Wei.
> 
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