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From: Mark Brown <broonie@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com>
To: Dimitris Papastamos <dp@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com>
Cc: alsa-devel@alsa-project.org, patches@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com,
	Liam Girdwood <lrg@slimlogic.co.uk>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ASoC: soc-cache: Fix memory overflow in LZO initialization
Date: Tue, 30 Nov 2010 12:54:59 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20101130125458.GG7403@rakim.wolfsonmicro.main> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1291031013-16686-1-git-send-email-dp@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com>

On Mon, Nov 29, 2010 at 11:43:33AM +0000, Dimitris Papastamos wrote:
> The bitmap_zero() nbits argument was improperly set to reg_size
> but the underlying buffer was bmp_size long.  This caused the memset
> to zero past the end of the allocated buffer and into the kernel heap
> causing strange kernel crashes sometimes by overwriting critical
> kernel structures.

Applied, thanks.

      parent reply	other threads:[~2010-11-30 12:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-11-29 11:43 [PATCH] ASoC: soc-cache: Fix memory overflow in LZO initialization Dimitris Papastamos
2010-11-30 12:05 ` Liam Girdwood
2010-11-30 12:54 ` Mark Brown [this message]

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