linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] ALSA: info: Check for integer overflow in snd_info_entry

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Date:   Thu, 16 Aug 2018 12:07:05 +0200
From:   Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:     Erick Reyes <erickreyes@...gle.com>
Cc:     stable@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Jaroslav Kysela <perex@...ex.cz>,
        Takashi Iwai <tiwai@...e.com>, kernel-team@...roid.com,
        Vinod Koul <vkoul@...nel.org>, Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>,
        Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>, alsa-devel@...a-project.org,
        Siqi Lin <siqilin@...gle.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ALSA: info: Check for integer overflow in
 snd_info_entry_write()

On Wed, Aug 15, 2018 at 05:55:48PM -0700, Erick Reyes wrote:
> Commit 4adb7bcbcb69 ("ALSA: core: Use seq_file for text proc file
> reads") heavily refactored ALSA procfs and fixed the overflow as
> a side-effect, so this fix only applies to kernels < 4.2 and
> there is no upstream equivalent

Thanks for the patch.  I'll queue this up for 3.18.

greg k-h