On Fri, 18 Jun 2010, Greg KH wrote: > On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 10:16:33AM -0400, Alan Stern wrote: > > This patch (as1401) fixes a bug in usb_sg_init() that can cause an > > invalid pointer dereference. An inner loop reuses some local variables > > in an unsafe manner, so new variables are introduced. > > > > Signed-off-by: Alan Stern <stern@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > Tested-by: Ajay Kumar Gupta <ajay.gupta@xxxxxx> > > > > --- > > > > Greg, this fix needs to get into 2.6.35. > > Does it also need to go into older -stable kernels? No. The bug it fixes was introduced in commit 0ba169aff9181389f30f225ad92e113eeb2290b9 (USB: simplify usb_sg_init()), which has not been applied to any -stable kernels as far as I know. Alan Stern -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-usb" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
