Re: [PATCH] acpi: debugfs: fix buffer overflows, double free

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On 1/21/11, WANG Cong <xiyou.wangcong@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Thu, 20 Jan 2011 23:08:06 +0300, Vasiliy Kulikov wrote:
>
>> File position is not controlled, it may lead to overwrites of arbitrary
>> kernel memory.  Also the code may kfree() the same pointer multiple
>> times.
>>
>> One more flaw is still present: if multiple processes open the file then
>> all 3 static variables are shared, leading to various race conditions.
>> They should be moved to file->private_data.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Vasiliy Kulikov <segoon@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Reviewed-by: WANG Cong <xiyou.wangcong@xxxxxxxxx>

Reviewed-by: Eugene Teo <eugeneteo@xxxxxxxxxx>

Thanks, Eugene
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