On 07/29/2015 11:36 PM, Dan Carpenter wrote: > On 64 bit CPUs there is a memory corruption bug on probe(). It should > be a u32 pointer instead of an unsigned long pointer or we write past > the end of the setupdata[] array. > > Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx> > --- > Someone reported in 2003 that probe has a NULL deref so maybe it's > related to this memory corruption? > https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1118 > > If only we had applied this patch when I originally sent it two years > ago, then it would only be 10 years too late instead of 12! :P > Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@xxxxxxxx> Cheers, Hannes -- Dr. Hannes Reinecke zSeries & Storage hare@xxxxxxx +49 911 74053 688 SUSE LINUX GmbH, Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg GF: F. Imendörffer, J. Smithard, J. Guild, D. Upmanyu, G. Norton HRB 21284 (AG Nürnberg) -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kernel-janitors" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
