Re: [PATCH 2/2] Staging: bcm: Add size maximum size restrictions for IOCTL_IDLE_REQ

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On Fri, Sep 16, 2011 at 04:04:22PM -0400, Kevin McKinney wrote:
> Hi Greg,
> 
> On Fri, Sep 16, 2011 at 2:14 PM, Greg KH <greg@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 08:59:18PM -0400, Kevin McKinney wrote:
> >> In the first alteration, the MAX_CNTL_PKT_SIZE is the
> >> maximum size of the control packet in ->Adapter->txctlpacket[]
> >> which is defined in InitAdapter(). This caps the size of
> >> kmalloc memory allocation. In the second change, this max
> >> cap fixes a potential memory corruption bug when subsequent
> >> memset and memcpy calls are invoked.
> >>
> >> Signed-off-by: Kevin McKinney <klmckinney1@xxxxxxxxx>
> >> ---
> >>  drivers/staging/bcm/Bcmchar.c             |    3 +++
> >>  drivers/staging/bcm/Misc.c                |    4 ++++
> >>  2 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
> >>  delete mode 100644 arch/arm/mach-lpc32xx/include/mach/gpio.h
> >>
> >> diff --git a/arch/arm/mach-lpc32xx/include/mach/gpio.h b/arch/arm/mach-lpc32xx/include/mach/gpio.h
> >> deleted file mode 100644
> >> index e69de29..0000000
> >
> > Your diffstat above doesn't match this line, so I really can't trust
> > this patch at all.
> >
> > And it doesn't make sense, care to redo these 2 so they do make sense?
> >
> Yes, I will redo these two patches; but are you saying that my above
> patch description does not make sense ?

No, your patch is removing a whole file, yet it doesn't show up in the
diffstat, so something is seriously wrong.

Actually, I don't even know how you can generate such a thing, unless
you were editing the patch by hand.  Is that how this happened?

greg k-h
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