The patch titled acpi_pad: "processor_aggregator" name too long has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is acpi_pad-processor_aggregator-name-too-long.patch Before you just go and hit "reply", please: a) Consider who else should be cc'ed b) Prefer to cc a suitable mailing list as well c) Ideally: find the original patch on the mailing list and do a reply-to-all to that, adding suitable additional cc's *** Remember to use Documentation/SubmitChecklist when testing your code *** See http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/stuff/added-to-mm.txt to find out what to do about this The current -mm tree may be found at http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/mmotm/ ------------------------------------------------------ Subject: acpi_pad: "processor_aggregator" name too long From: Dan Carpenter <error27@xxxxxxxxx> cpi_device_class can only be 19 characters and a NULL terminator. With the current name we get a buffer overflow in acpi_pad_add() strcpy(acpi_device_class(device), ACPI_PROCESSOR_AGGREGATOR_CLASS); Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <error27@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: walter harms <wharms@xxxxxx> Cc: Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Len Brown <lenb@xxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@xxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/acpi/acpi_pad.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff -puN drivers/acpi/acpi_pad.c~acpi_pad-processor_aggregator-name-too-long drivers/acpi/acpi_pad.c --- a/drivers/acpi/acpi_pad.c~acpi_pad-processor_aggregator-name-too-long +++ a/drivers/acpi/acpi_pad.c @@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ #include <acpi/acpi_bus.h> #include <acpi/acpi_drivers.h> -#define ACPI_PROCESSOR_AGGREGATOR_CLASS "processor_aggregator" +#define ACPI_PROCESSOR_AGGREGATOR_CLASS "cpu_aggregator" #define ACPI_PROCESSOR_AGGREGATOR_DEVICE_NAME "Processor Aggregator" #define ACPI_PROCESSOR_AGGREGATOR_NOTIFY 0x80 static DEFINE_MUTEX(isolated_cpus_lock); _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from error27@xxxxxxxxx are linux-next.patch power_meter-acpi_device_class-power_meter_resource-too-long.patch dpt_i20-several-use-after-free-issues.patch sbshc-acpi_device_class-smbus_host_controller-too-long.patch acpi_pad-processor_aggregator-name-too-long.patch backlight-backlight_device_register-return-err_ptr.patch scsi-remove-superfluous-null-pointer-check-from-scsi_kill_request.patch iscsi-change-to.patch musb-potential-use-after-free.patch dynamic_debug-small-cleanup-in-ddebug_proc_write.patch sis-strcpy-=-strlcpy.patch proc-cleanup-remove-unused-assignments.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe mm-commits" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html