From: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
To: kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] kdb: do a sanity check on the cpu in kdb_per_cpu()
Date: Wed, 08 May 2019 08:57:52 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190508085752.GY2239@kadam> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190506125018.GA13799@mwanda>
On Wed, May 08, 2019 at 09:48:38AM +0100, Daniel Thompson wrote:
> On Mon, May 06, 2019 at 03:50:18PM +0300, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> > The "whichcpu" comes from argv[3]. The cpu_online() macro looks up the
> > cpu in a bitmap of online cpus, but if the value is too high then it
> > could read beyond the end of the bitmap and possibly Oops.
> >
> > Fixes: 5d5314d6795f ("kdb: core for kgdb back end (1 of 2)")
> > Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
>
> Just out of interest... why isn't this copied to LKML? Omiting LKML makes
> the patch hard to find in a patchwork instance.
Sorry, I wasn't aware that anyone was using LKML for patchwork.
regards,
dan carpenter
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-05-08 8:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-05-06 12:50 [PATCH] kdb: do a sanity check on the cpu in kdb_per_cpu() Dan Carpenter
2019-05-08 8:48 ` Daniel Thompson
2019-05-08 8:57 ` Dan Carpenter [this message]
2019-05-08 15:08 ` Doug Anderson
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