linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] dell-wmi: Fix access out of memory

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Message-Id: <201410121845.07303@pali>
Date:	Sun, 12 Oct 2014 18:45:06 +0200
From:	Pali Rohár <pali.rohar@...il.com>
To:	Darren Hart <dvhart@...radead.org>
Cc:	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...ysocki.net>,
	Matthew Garrett <mjg59@...f.ucam.org>,
	platform-driver-x86@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-acpi@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] dell-wmi: Fix access out of memory

On Tuesday 30 September 2014 01:16:23 Darren Hart wrote:
> On September 29, 2014 4:26:03 PM PDT, "Rafael J. Wysocki" 
<rjw@...ysocki.net> wrote:
> >On Monday, September 29, 2014 02:30:29 PM Darren Hart wrote:
> >> On Mon, Sep 29, 2014 at 03:10:51PM +0200, Pali Rohár wrote:
> >> > Without this patch driver dell-wmi is trying to access
> >> > elements of
> >
> >dynamically
> >
> >> > allocated array without checking array size. This can
> >> > lead to
> >
> >memory corruption
> >
> >> > or kernel panic. This patch adds missing checks for array
> >> > size.
> >> > 
> >> > Signed-off-by: Pali Rohár <pali.rohar@...il.com>
> >> 
> >> Looks good to me. Rafael, any concerns?
> >
> >Not anything obvious.
> 
> Queued, thanks.
> 
> >> Cc: linux-acpi
> >
> >Thanks!
> >

Now I see that this patch is in linus tree. Can you sent it to 
stable trees too?

-- 
Pali Rohár
pali.rohar@...il.com

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