From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Ilya Matveychikov <matvejchikov@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] cmdline: fix get_options() overflow while parsing ranges
Date: Mon, 22 May 2017 18:03:43 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170522160343.GA29663@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2613C75C-B04D-4BFF-82A6-12F97BA0F620@gmail.com>
On Mon, May 22, 2017 at 07:53:47PM +0400, Ilya Matveychikov wrote:
> When using get_options() it's possible to specify a range of numbers,
> like 1-100500. The problem is that it doesn't track array size while
> calling internally to get_range() which iterates over the range and
> fills the memory with numbers.
>
> Signed-off-by: Ilya V. Matveychikov <matvejchikov@gmail.com>
> ---
> lib/cmdline.c | 6 +++---
> 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
<formletter>
This is not the correct way to submit patches for inclusion in the
stable kernel tree. Please read:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/process/stable-kernel-rules.html
for how to do this properly.
</formletter>
prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-05-22 16:03 UTC|newest]
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2017-05-22 15:53 [PATCH] cmdline: fix get_options() overflow while parsing ranges Ilya Matveychikov
2017-05-22 16:03 ` Greg KH [this message]
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