Messages in this thread | | | From | Hiroshi Doyu <> | Date | Wed, 20 Nov 2013 08:36:57 +0100 | Subject | Re: [PATCH] fs: partitions: efi: Fix bound check |
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Antti Miettinen <amiettinen@nvidia.com> wrote @ Wed, 20 Nov 2013 08:18:50 +0100:
> On 20.11.2013 02:04, Andrew Morton wrote: > > On Fri, 15 Nov 2013 19:14:22 +0200 (EET) Antti P Miettinen > > <amiettinen@nvidia.com> wrote: > > > > > Use ARRAY_SIZE instead of sizeof to get proper max for label > > > length. > > > > > > Signed-off-by: Antti P Miettinen <amiettinen@nvidia.com> > > > Reviewed-by: Hiroshi Doyu <hdoyu@nvidia.com> > > > Tested-by: Hiroshi Doyu <hdoyu@nvidia.com> > > > > When fixing a bug, please provide a description of the user-visible > > impact of that bug. This is so that others can decide which kernel > > version(s) need the patch. > > > > Hiroshi Doyu tested this patch, so I assume there was some observable > > misbehaviour to test. Please fully describe that. > > Since this is just a read out of bounds it's not that bad, but the > problem becomes user-visible e.g. if one tries to use > CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC and CONFIG_DEBUG_RODATA, at least with some > enhancements from Hiroshi.
The above enhancement is almost ARCH_SUPPORTS_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC for ARM, which could catch illegal memory access(read/write) with a page fault although that enhancement itself needs some cleanups before being upstreamed.
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