On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 03:38:49PM +0530, Suzuki Poulose wrote:
> Fix memory errors on ppc
> 
>  Fixes buffer overflow and improper realloc() in realloc_memory_ranges().
> 
> Signed-off-by: Suzuki K. Poulose <[email protected]>

Thanks.

For some reason I still had trouble applying your patch,
so I applied it manually. I have pushed the following:

>From 806ef8870539a6c74a2a98188d0207a038b16f77 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Suzuki Poulose <[email protected]>
Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2011 15:38:49 +0530
Subject: [PATCH] Fix memory errors on ppc

Fixes buffer overflow and improper realloc() in realloc_memory_ranges().

Signed-off-by: Suzuki K. Poulose <[email protected]>
(manually applied)
Signed-off-by: Simon Horman <[email protected]>
---
 kexec/arch/ppc/crashdump-powerpc.c |    2 +-
 kexec/arch/ppc/kexec-ppc.c         |    7 ++++---
 2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kexec/arch/ppc/crashdump-powerpc.c 
b/kexec/arch/ppc/crashdump-powerpc.c
index eb82122..371137c 100644
--- a/kexec/arch/ppc/crashdump-powerpc.c
+++ b/kexec/arch/ppc/crashdump-powerpc.c
@@ -79,7 +79,7 @@ static int get_crash_memory_ranges(struct memory_range 
**range, int *ranges)
        int memory_ranges = 0;
        char device_tree[256] = "/proc/device-tree/";
        char fname[256];
-       char buf[MAXBYTES-1];
+       char buf[MAXBYTES];
        DIR *dir, *dmem;
        FILE *file;
        struct dirent *dentry, *mentry;
diff --git a/kexec/arch/ppc/kexec-ppc.c b/kexec/arch/ppc/kexec-ppc.c
index ab76d6f..db00b96 100644
--- a/kexec/arch/ppc/kexec-ppc.c
+++ b/kexec/arch/ppc/kexec-ppc.c
@@ -192,11 +192,12 @@ static int realloc_memory_ranges(void)
        max_memory_ranges++;
        memory_range_len = sizeof(struct memory_range) * max_memory_ranges;
 
-       memory_range = (struct memory_range *) malloc(memory_range_len);
+       memory_range = (struct memory_range *) realloc(memory_range,
+                                                      memory_range_len);
        if (!memory_range)
                goto err;
 
-       base_memory_range = (struct memory_range *) realloc(memory_range,
+       base_memory_range = (struct memory_range *) realloc(base_memory_range,
                        memory_range_len);
        if (!base_memory_range)
                goto err;
@@ -319,7 +320,7 @@ static int get_devtree_details(unsigned long kexec_flags)
        unsigned long long htab_base, htab_size;
        unsigned long long kernel_end;
        unsigned long long initrd_start, initrd_end;
-       char buf[MAXBYTES-1];
+       char buf[MAXBYTES];
        char device_tree[256] = "/proc/device-tree/";
        char fname[256];
        DIR *dir, *cdir;
-- 
1.7.4.1


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