linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] rds: avoid potential stack overflow

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Date:	Mon, 09 Mar 2015 22:41:18 -0400 (EDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	arnd@...db.de
Cc:	chien.yen@...cle.com, rds-devel@....oracle.com,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	roland@...estorage.com, sowmini.varadhan@...cle.com,
	linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] rds: avoid potential stack overflow

From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
Date: Mon, 09 Mar 2015 13:06:52 +0100

> The rds_iw_add_conn function stores a large 'struct rds_sock' object
> on the stack in order to pass a pair of addresses.

As Sowmini pointed out, this function is not the top-level
guilty one, it's rds_iw_update_cm_id.

Please respin this with a corrected commit message, thanks.
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