linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] zram: fix random data read

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Date:	Fri, 08 Jun 2012 00:23:30 -0700
From:	Nitin Gupta <ngupta@...are.org>
To:	Minchan Kim <minchan@...nel.org>
CC:	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org,
	Seth Jennings <sjenning@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Jerome Marchand <jmarchan@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] zram: fix random data read

On 06/07/2012 11:39 PM, Minchan Kim wrote:

> fd1a30de makes a bug that it uses (struct page *) as zsmalloc's handle
> although it's a uncompressed page so that it can access random page,
> return random data or even crashed by get_first_page in zs_map_object.
> 
> Cc: Nitin Gupta <ngupta@...are.org>
> Cc: Seth Jennings <sjenning@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
> Cc: Jerome Marchand <jmarchan@...hat.com>
> Signed-off-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@...nel.org>
> ---
>  drivers/staging/zram/zram_drv.c |   15 ++++++++-------
>  1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
> 


Great catch! The problem goes away after your next patch for using
zsmalloc for all the cases, still this fix can never hurt.

Acked-by: Nitin Gupta <ngupta@...are.org>


Thanks,
Nitin
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