This patch adds checks to the dirty log creation for region size to be larger than 2 sectors and to be a power of 2. Signed-off-by: Heinz Mauelshagen <heinzm@xxxxxxxxxx> --- diff -up linux-2.6.27.4/drivers/md/dm-log.c.orig linux-2.6.27.4/drivers/md/dm-log.c --- linux-2.6.27.4/drivers/md/dm-log.c.log 2008-10-29 13:51:03.000000000 +0100 +++ linux-2.6.27.4/drivers/md/dm-log.c 2008-10-29 13:55:57.000000000 +0100 @@ -403,8 +403,10 @@ static int create_log_context(struct dm_ } } - if (sscanf(argv[0], "%u", ®ion_size) != 1) { - DMWARN("invalid region size string"); + if (sscanf(argv[0], "%u", ®ion_size) != 1 || + region_size < 2 || + (region_size & (region_size - 1))) { + DMWARN("invalid region size"); return -EINVAL; } -- dm-devel mailing list dm-devel@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/dm-devel