linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH, Bugfix] RAMOOPS: Don't overflow over non-allocated regions

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Message-ID: <20101227213314.GA30153@laptop>
Date:	Mon, 27 Dec 2010 23:33:14 +0200
From:	"Ahmed S. Darwish" <darwish.07@...il.com>
To:	Marco Stornelli <marco.stornelli@...il.com>
Cc:	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Kyungmin Park <kyungmin.park@...sung.com>,
	David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@...el.com>,
	Greg KH <gregkh@...e.de>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH, Bugfix] RAMOOPS: Don't overflow over non-allocated
	regions

On Sat, Dec 25, 2010 at 12:19:35PM +0100, Marco Stornelli wrote:
> Il 25/12/2010 10:57, Ahmed S. Darwish ha scritto:
> > 
> > Current code mis-calculates the ramoops header size, leading to an
> > overflow over the next record at best, or over a non-allocated region
> > at worst. Fix that calculation.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Ahmed S. Darwish <darwish.07@...il.com>
> > --
> 
> Acked-by: Marco Stornelli <marco.stornelli@...il.com>
>

Someone to push this to Linus before -rc8? Andrew?

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