This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
i2c: xgene: Avoid dma_buffer overrun
to the 4.8-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
i2c-xgene-avoid-dma_buffer-overrun.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.8 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From 603616017c35f4d0fbdbcace72adf9bf949c4a65 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Hoan Tran <hotran@xxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 10 Oct 2016 10:13:10 -0700
Subject: i2c: xgene: Avoid dma_buffer overrun
From: Hoan Tran <hotran@xxxxxxx>
commit 603616017c35f4d0fbdbcace72adf9bf949c4a65 upstream.
SMBus block command uses the first byte of buffer for the data length.
The dma_buffer should be increased by 1 to avoid the overrun issue.
Reported-by: Phil Endecott <phil_gjouf_endecott@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Hoan Tran <hotran@xxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Wolfram Sang <wsa@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-xgene-slimpro.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
--- a/drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-xgene-slimpro.c
+++ b/drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-xgene-slimpro.c
@@ -105,7 +105,7 @@ struct slimpro_i2c_dev {
struct mbox_chan *mbox_chan;
struct mbox_client mbox_client;
struct completion rd_complete;
- u8 dma_buffer[I2C_SMBUS_BLOCK_MAX];
+ u8 dma_buffer[I2C_SMBUS_BLOCK_MAX + 1]; /* dma_buffer[0] is used for length */
u32 *resp_msg;
};
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from hotran@xxxxxxx are
queue-4.8/i2c-xgene-avoid-dma_buffer-overrun.patch
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