From: Al Viro <viro@ftp.linux.org.uk>
To: Roel Kluin <12o3l@tiscali.nl>
Cc: lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] fix writing to unintended memory in eth16i_probe_port(); drivers/net/eth16i.c
Date: Tue, 6 Nov 2007 23:00:26 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20071106230026.GL8181@ftp.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4730F168.4010203@tiscali.nl>
On Tue, Nov 06, 2007 at 11:57:44PM +0100, Roel Kluin wrote:
> 14 is added as an offset to the array dummy_packet (64 unsigned chars) to
> serve as a destination address in a call to memset(). However, when added,
> it is automatically scaled by the size of dummy_packet, which is 64. This
> results in writing to unintended memory.
NAK. Learn C.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-11-06 23:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-11-06 22:57 [PATCH] fix writing to unintended memory in eth16i_probe_port(); drivers/net/eth16i.c Roel Kluin
2007-11-06 23:00 ` Al Viro [this message]
2007-11-06 23:16 ` Roel Kluin
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