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

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Message-ID: <536D0CA4.60209@xs4all.nl>
Date:	Fri, 09 May 2014 19:13:08 +0200
From:	Hans Verkuil <hverkuil@...all.nl>
To:	Pali Rohár <pali.rohar@...il.com>,
	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 05/09/2014 06:10 PM, Pali Rohár wrote:
> 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?
> 

Today I collected a pile of pending patches including this one and
posted a pull request on the linux-media mailinglist. Once Mauro picks
it up it will appear in our tree and then linux-next. He's been
travelling for the past two weeks, so he'll have a sizable backlog.

Just be patient, it's not forgotten.

Regards,

	Hans
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