linux-kernel - Re: [Oops 1/2]Something wrong with copy_from

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Message-ID: <20110501023953.GA30713@kroah.com>
Date:	Sat, 30 Apr 2011 19:39:53 -0700
From:	Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>
To:	Jiri Kosina <jkosina@...e.cz>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	akpm@...ux-foundation.org, randy.dunlap@...cle.com, joe@...ches.com
Subject: Re: [Oops 1/2]Something wrong with copy_from_user() function

On Sun, May 01, 2011 at 09:21:30AM +0800, Harry Wei wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 30, 2011 at 11:13:10PM +0200, Jiri Kosina wrote:
> > On Sat, 30 Apr 2011, Harry Wei wrote:
> > 
> > 
> > wpa_set_keys() function (from staging drivers) in your kernel uses 
> > copy_from_user() without proper bounds checking, and thus can overflow and 
> > corrupt memory.
> Hmmm, i see.

Patches gladly welcome to fix this :)
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