From: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Mon, 22 Jun 2009 11:49:14 +0200 > On Sunday 21 June 2009 00:04:23 Christian Engelmayer wrote: >> From: Christian Engelmayer <christian.engelmayer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> >> >> This patch fixes a memory overrun in function ide_get_identity_ioctl() which >> chooses the size of a memory buffer depending on the ioctl command that led >> to the function call, however, passes that buffer to a function which needs the >> buffer size to be always chosen unconditionally. >> >> Due to conditional compilation the memory overrun can only happen on big endian >> machines. The error can be triggered using ioctl HDIO_OBSOLETE_IDENTITY. Usage >> of ioctl HDIO_GET_IDENTITY is safe. >> >> Signed-off-by: Christian Engelmayer <christian.engelmayer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > Acked-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@xxxxxxxxx> Applied, thanks everyone. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ide" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
