From: Nathan Lynch <ntl@pobox.com>
To: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>,
matthltc@us.ibm.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] linux,tce-size property is 32 bits
Date: Thu, 5 Oct 2006 09:32:44 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20061005143244.GJ24705@localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1160039899.22232.54.camel@localhost.localdomain>
Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> On Wed, 2006-10-04 at 22:28 -0500, Nathan Lynch wrote:
> > The "linux,tce-size" property is only 32 bits (see
> > prom_initialize_tce_table() in arch/powerpc/kernel/prom_init.c).
> > Treating it as an unsigned long in iommu_table_setparms() leads to
> > access beyond the end of the property's buffer, so we pass garbage to
> > the memset() in that function.
>
> Probably needs to go into stable as well. Do you know if RHEL5 is
> affected too ?
AFAICT this was introduced by the "Constify & voidify get_property()"
series which went in post-2.6.18 so no backport for -stable is
needed. Not sure about RHEL5.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-10-05 14:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-10-05 3:28 [PATCH] linux,tce-size property is 32 bits Nathan Lynch
2006-10-05 9:18 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2006-10-05 14:32 ` Nathan Lynch [this message]
2006-10-06 2:16 ` Jeremy Kerr
2006-10-06 2:22 ` Olof Johansson
2006-10-06 2:27 ` Jeremy Kerr
2006-10-05 15:36 ` Olof Johansson
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