linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2] radio-bcm2048.c: fix wrong overflow check

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Date:	Fri, 9 May 2014 18:10:17 +0200
From:	Pali Rohár <pali.rohar@...il.com>
To:	Jiri Kosina <jkosina@...e.cz>
Cc:	Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>, hans.verkuil@...co.com,
	m.chehab@...sung.com, ext-eero.nurkkala@...ia.com,
	nils.faerber@...nelconcepts.de, joni.lapilainen@...il.com,
	freemangordon@....bg, sre@...g0.de, Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>,
	linux-media@...r.kernel.org,
	kernel list <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] radio-bcm2048.c: fix wrong overflow check

On Monday 05 May 2014 15:34:29 Jiri Kosina wrote:
> On Tue, 22 Apr 2014, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> > From: Pali Rohár <pali.rohar@...il.com>
> > 
> > This patch fixes an off by one check in
> > bcm2048_set_region().
> > 
> > Reported-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>
> > Signed-off-by: Pali Rohár <pali.rohar@...il.com>
> > Signed-off-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz>
> > Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>
> > ---
> > v2: Send it to the correct list.  Re-work the changelog.
> > 
> > This patch has been floating around for four months but
> > Pavel and Pali are knuckle-heads and don't know how to use
> > get_maintainer.pl so they never send it to linux-media.
> > 
> > Also Pali doesn't give reporter credit and Pavel steals
> > authorship credit.
> > 
> > Also when you try explain to them about how to send patches
> > correctly they complain that they have been trying but it
> > is too much work so now I have to do it.  During the past
> > four months thousands of other people have been able to
> > send patches in the correct format to the correct list but
> > it is too difficult for Pavel and Pali...  *sigh*.
> 
> Seems like it's not in linux-next as of today, so I am taking
> it now. Thanks,

I still do not see this patch in torvalds branch... So what is 
needed to include this security buffer overflow patch into 
mainline & stable kernels?

-- 
Pali Rohár
pali.rohar@...il.com

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