Re: [patch] [SCSI] atp870u: 64 bit bug in probe()

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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
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