On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 04:08:59PM +0800, Lv Zheng wrote: > This patch enhances sanity checks on message size to avoid potential buffer > overflow. > > The kernel IPMI message size is IPMI_MAX_MSG_LENGTH(272 bytes) while the > ACPI specification defined IPMI message size is 64 bytes. The difference > is not handled by the original codes. This may cause crash in the response > handling codes. > This patch fixes this gap and also combines rx_data/tx_data to use single > data/len pair since they need not be seperated. > > Signed-off-by: Lv Zheng <lv.zheng@xxxxxxxxx> > Reviewed-by: Huang Ying <ying.huang@xxxxxxxxx> > --- > drivers/acpi/acpi_ipmi.c | 100 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------------------ > 1 file changed, 61 insertions(+), 39 deletions(-) <formletter> This is not the correct way to submit patches for inclusion in the stable kernel tree. Please read Documentation/stable_kernel_rules.txt for how to do this properly. </formletter> Same goes for the other patches you sent in this thread... -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-acpi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
