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Message-ID: <4AA55EE5.10102@s5r6.in-berlin.de> Date: Mon, 07 Sep 2009 21:28:37 +0200 From: Stefan Richter <stefanr@...6.in-berlin.de> To: pageexec@...email.hu CC: linux1394-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, stable@...nel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/6] firewire: ohci: fix Self ID Count register mask (safeguard against buffer overflow) pageexec@...email.hu wrote: > On 6 Sep 2009 at 18:49, Stefan Richter wrote: > > added stable as .30 is affected, possibly older kernels as well, i didn't check. The mistake which is fixed here is present since firewire-ohci was added in 2.6.22. However, for a smooth submission to stable, the patched file... >> --- linux-2.6.31-rc9.orig/drivers/firewire/ohci.c >> +++ linux-2.6.31-rc9/drivers/firewire/ohci.c ...has to be drivers/firewire/fw-ohci.c in kernels before 2.6.31-rc1. As hinted at in the changelog, I personally don't consider the fix urgent because there are a few more self ID consistency checks in place which catch a variety of real and theoretical corruptions, but I don't claim that I'm appropriately aware of all possibilities. -- Stefan Richter -=====-==--= =--= --=== http://arcgraph.de/sr/ -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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