linux-kernel - [PATCH 4/4] staging: lustre: Fix potential buffer underflow

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Date:	Tue, 09 Sep 2014 00:12:01 +0200
From:	Hugues <morisset.hugues@...il.com>
To:	gregkh@...uxfoundation.org
CC:	devel@...verdev.osuosl.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH 4/4] staging: lustre: Fix potential buffer underflow

Fix potential buffer underflow

When the string 'name' start with a '-' ptr == name and so --ptr will
underflow, this patch corrected this by checking ptr before decrementing.

View attachment "0004-staging-lustre-Fix-potential-buffer-underflow.patch" of type "text/x-patch" (927 bytes)