> From: Greg KH [mailto:greg@xxxxxxxxx] > Sent: Tuesday, October 31, 2017 11:50 PM > To: Long Li <longli@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Cc: KY Srinivasan <kys@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>; Haiyang Zhang > <haiyangz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>; Stephen Hemminger > <sthemmin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>; devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; linux- > kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; Paul Meyer > <Paul.Meyer@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>; Long Li <longli@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] hv: kvp: Avoid reading past allocated blocks from > KVP file > > On Tue, Oct 31, 2017 at 01:02:35PM -0700, Long Li wrote: > > From: Paul Meyer <Paul.Meyer@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > > > While reading in more than one block (50) of KVP records, the > > allocation goes per block, but the reads used the total number of > > allocated records (without resetting the pointer/stream). This causes > > the records buffer to overrun when the refresh reads more than one > > block over the previous capacity (e.g. reading more than 100 KVP > > records whereas the in-memory database was empty before). > > > > Fix this by reading the correct number of KVP records from file each time. > > > > Signed-off-by: Paul Meyer <Paul.Meyer@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > Signed-off-by: Long Li <longli@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > --- > > tools/hv/hv_kvp_daemon.c | 66 > > ++++++++---------------------------------------- > > 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 56 deletions(-) > > When you version a patch, you always have to say what changed below the > --- line, as the documentation states to do... Sorry it was my bad. Can I resend v2 and indicate what has changed? Long > > v3? :) > > thanks, > > greg k-h