Re: [stable] [PATCH] sound/pci/asihpi: check adapter index in hpi_ioctl

[Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>]

On Thu, Mar 17, 2011 at 06:32:24PM -0400, Dan Rosenberg wrote:
> The user-supplied index into the adapters array needs to be checked, or
> an out-of-bounds kernel pointer could be accessed and used, leading to
> potentially exploitable memory corruption.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Dan Rosenberg <drosenberg@vsecurity.com>
> ---
>  sound/pci/asihpi/hpioctl.c |    5 +++++
>  1 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

<formletter>

This is not the correct way to submit patches for inclusion in the
stable kernel tree.  Please read Documentation/stable_kernel_rules.txt
for how to do this properly.

</formletter>

thanks,

greg k-h