On October 23, 2018 7:53:51 AM PDT, Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]> wrote: >On Mon, Oct 22, 2018 at 09:19:04AM -0700, H. Peter Anvin (Intel) wrote: >> From: "H. Peter Anvin" <[email protected]> >> >> On architectures with CBAUDEX == 0 (Alpha and PowerPC), the code in >tty_baudrate.c does >> not do any limit checking on the tty_baudrate[] array, and in fact a >> buffer overrun is possible on both architectures. Add a limit check >to >> prevent that situation. >> >> This will be followed by a much bigger cleanup/simplification patch. >> >> Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin (Intel) <[email protected]> >> Requested-by: Cc: Johan Hovold <[email protected]> >> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]> >> Cc: Jiri Slaby <[email protected]> >> Cc: Al Viro <[email protected]> >> Cc: Richard Henderson <[email protected]> >> Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky <[email protected]> >> Cc: Matt Turner <[email protected]> >> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]> >> Cc: Kate Stewart <[email protected]> >> Cc: Philippe Ombredanne <[email protected]> >> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]> >> Cc: Eugene Syromiatnikov <[email protected]> >> Cc: <[email protected]> >> Cc: <[email protected]> >> Cc: Alan Cox <[email protected]> >> Cc: <[email protected]> >> --- >> drivers/tty/tty_baudrate.c | 4 ++-- >> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) > >As I think Al's big termios cleanups are going to be hitting Linus's >tree soon, do you know how these patches interact with that? > >This patch seems like it will not, so I'll be glad to queue that up >after my first round of patches get merged to Linus later this week, >but >the second one worries me. > >thanks, > >greg k-h
I have been working with Al; we had approached much the same problems but from different directions. Mine ended up being a bit more comprehensive as a result, so I think we're going to end up using my code with Al's reviews. So bottom line is that it should be all good. -- Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity.
