Re: Regression caused by commit dad5ab0db8de ("x86/acpi: Prevent out of bound access caused by broken ACPI tables")

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On Wed, Jan 10, 2018 at 09:03:18PM +0100, Jean Delvare wrote:
> Hi Greg,
> 
> On Wed, 10 Jan 2018 20:10:44 +0100, Greg KH wrote:
> > Many thanks for the report, I've queued up 252714155f04 now.  I don't
> > think 4ee2ec1b1225 needs to be merged, unless the acpi maintainers think
> > it is a good idea to do so.
> > 
> > Rafael, any thoughts?
> 
> FWIW we applied both in SUSE kernels. I did not make the decision but I
> approve it. Having duplicated code in our kernel when there's only one
> occurrence of the same code upstream looks dangerous. If there ever is
> a bug fixed in that function and we backport the fix, you can be sure
> that only one of the copies will get fixed and the bug will remain in
> the other.

Good idea, I've now queued it up as well, thanks.

greg k-h



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