linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 02/10] module: fix out-of-range memory access

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Message-ID: <499E58CB.1000005@kernel.org>
Date:	Fri, 20 Feb 2009 16:16:27 +0900
From:	Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>
To:	rusty@...tcorp.com.au, tglx@...utronix.de, x86@...nel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, hpa@...or.com, jeremy@...p.org,
	cpw@....com, mingo@...e.hu
Subject: Re: [PATCH 02/10] module: fix out-of-range memory access

Tejun Heo wrote:
> Impact: subtle memory access bug fix
> 
> percpu_modalloc() may access pcpu_size[-1].  The access won't change
> the value by itself but it still is read/write access and dangerous.
> Fix it.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>

Dropped as this can never happen.

-- 
tejun
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