On October 23, 2018 7:53:51 AM PDT, Greg Kroah-Hartman <gre...@linuxfoundation.org> wrote: >On Mon, Oct 22, 2018 at 09:19:04AM -0700, H. Peter Anvin (Intel) wrote: >> From: "H. Peter Anvin" <h...@zytor.com> >> >> 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) <h...@zytor.com> >> Requested-by: Cc: Johan Hovold <jo...@kernel.org> >> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gre...@linuxfoundation.org> >> Cc: Jiri Slaby <jsl...@suse.com> >> Cc: Al Viro <v...@zeniv.linux.org.uk> >> Cc: Richard Henderson <r...@twiddle.net> >> Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky <i...@jurassic.park.msu.ru> >> Cc: Matt Turner <matts...@gmail.com> >> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <t...@linutronix.de> >> Cc: Kate Stewart <kstew...@linuxfoundation.org> >> Cc: Philippe Ombredanne <pombreda...@nexb.com> >> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gre...@linuxfoundation.org> >> Cc: Eugene Syromiatnikov <e...@redhat.com> >> Cc: <linux-al...@vger.kernel.org> >> Cc: <linux-ser...@vger.kernel.org> >> Cc: Alan Cox <a...@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> >> Cc: <sta...@vger.kernel.org> >> --- >> 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.
