linux-kernel - Re: does "block: add secure discard" cause an overflow?

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Date:	Sat, 04 Sep 2010 09:41:30 +0300
From:	Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@...ia.com>
To:	Dan Carpenter <error27@...il.com>
CC:	Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@...ia.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Jens Axboe <axboe@...nel.dk>
Subject: Re: does "block: add secure discard" cause an overflow?

Dan Carpenter wrote:
> This is the commit 8d57a98ccd0b44 "block: add secure discard".
> 
> The patch adds a letter 'E' to the string in blk_fill_rwbs().
>         if (rw & REQ_SECURE)
>                 rwbs[i++] = 'E';
> 
> The problem is that "rwbs" is a 6 character buffer and if all the flags
> are set the we'd get "WABSME" which would put us off the end (when you
> add the NUL terminator).

E goes with D which will not have either A or M, so there will not be
a rwbs with E that has more than 5 characters.

> 
> regards,
> dan carpenter
> 

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