Re: [PATCH v4 1/2] block: Fix a buffer overrun in bio_integrity_split()

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On Mon, Oct 15, 2012 at 01:09:01PM -0700, Kent Overstreet wrote:
> bio_integrity_split() seemed to be confusing pointers and arrays -
> bip_vec in bio_integrity_payload was an array appended to the end of the
> payload, so the bio_vecs in struct bio_pair should have come after the
> bio_integrity_payload they're for.
> 
> Fix it by making bip_vec a pointer to the inline vecs - a later patch is
> going to make more use of this pointer.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet <koverstreet@xxxxxxxxxx>
> CC: Jens Axboe <axboe@xxxxxxxxx>
> CC: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@xxxxxxxxxx>

This being an apparent bug, I think it would be better to create a
patch to simply reorder bio_pair fields to fix it and mark it w/ Cc:
stable and introduce bip_vec pointer separately.

Other than that, looks good.

Thanks.

-- 
tejun

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