[PATCH 2/2] Staging: bcm: Add size maximum size restrictions for IOCTL_IDLE_REQ

Greg KH greg at kroah.com
Fri Sep 16 11:14:11 PDT 2011


On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 08:59:18PM -0400, Kevin McKinney wrote:
> In the first alteration, the MAX_CNTL_PKT_SIZE is the
> maximum size of the control packet in ->Adapter->txctlpacket[]
> which is defined in InitAdapter(). This caps the size of
> kmalloc memory allocation. In the second change, this max
> cap fixes a potential memory corruption bug when subsequent
> memset and memcpy calls are invoked.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Kevin McKinney <klmckinney1 at gmail.com>
> ---
>  drivers/staging/bcm/Bcmchar.c             |    3 +++
>  drivers/staging/bcm/Misc.c                |    4 ++++
>  2 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
>  delete mode 100644 arch/arm/mach-lpc32xx/include/mach/gpio.h
> 
> diff --git a/arch/arm/mach-lpc32xx/include/mach/gpio.h b/arch/arm/mach-lpc32xx/include/mach/gpio.h
> deleted file mode 100644
> index e69de29..0000000

Your diffstat above doesn't match this line, so I really can't trust
this patch at all.

And it doesn't make sense, care to redo these 2 so they do make sense?

thanks,

greg k-h


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