The patch titled
kallsyms: fix potential overflow in binary search
has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename was
kallsyms-fix-potential-overflow-in-binary-search.patch
This patch was dropped because it was merged into mainline or a subsystem tree
The current -mm tree may be found at http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/mmotm/
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Subject: kallsyms: fix potential overflow in binary search
From: Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@xxxxxxxxx>
This will probably never trigger... but it won't hurt to be careful.
http://googleresearch.blogspot.com/2006/06/extra-extra-read-all-about-it-nearly.html
Signed-off-by: Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Joshua Bloch <jjb@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
kernel/kallsyms.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff -puN kernel/kallsyms.c~kallsyms-fix-potential-overflow-in-binary-search kernel/kallsyms.c
--- a/kernel/kallsyms.c~kallsyms-fix-potential-overflow-in-binary-search
+++ a/kernel/kallsyms.c
@@ -176,7 +176,7 @@ static unsigned long get_symbol_pos(unsi
high = kallsyms_num_syms;
while (high - low > 1) {
- mid = (low + high) / 2;
+ mid = low + (high - low) / 2;
if (kallsyms_addresses[mid] <= addr)
low = mid;
else
_
Patches currently in -mm which might be from vegard.nossum@xxxxxxxxx are
origin.patch
linux-next.patch
parisc-fix-incomplete-header-guard.patch
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