From: John Allen <jallen@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
To: Nathan Fontenot <nfont@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org
Cc: sahilmehta17@gmail.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v6 1/3] powerpc/pseries: Correct possible read beyond dlpar sysfs buffer
Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2016 09:20:24 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <49a9a949-c143-abc5-1d5e-e6eac8daf7d3@linux.vnet.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20161018172012.37287.76194.stgit@ltcalpine2-lp14.aus.stglabs.ibm.com>
On 10/18/2016 12:20 PM, Nathan Fontenot wrote:
> The pasrsing of data written to the dlpar file in sysfs does not correctly
> account for the possibility of reading past the end of the buffer. Correct
> this by updating the buffer parsing code to make a local copy and use the
> strsep() and sysfs_streq() routines to parse the buffer. This also
> separates the parsing code into subroutines to make cleaner.
>
> Signed-off-by: Nathan Fontenot <nfont@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
> ---
Reviewed-by: John Allen <jallen@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-10-27 14:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-10-18 17:20 [PATCH v6 0/3] powerpc/pseries: Implement indexed-count memory hotplug Nathan Fontenot
2016-10-18 17:20 ` [PATCH v6 1/3] powerpc/pseries: Correct possible read beyond dlpar sysfs buffer Nathan Fontenot
2016-10-27 14:20 ` John Allen [this message]
2016-10-18 17:20 ` [PATCH v6 2/3] powerpc/pseries: Implement indexed-count hotplug memory add Nathan Fontenot
2016-10-27 14:21 ` John Allen
2016-10-18 17:21 ` [PATCH v6 3/3] powerpc/pseries: Implement indexed-count hotplug memory remove Nathan Fontenot
2016-10-27 14:22 ` John Allen
2016-11-15 0:58 ` Michael Roth
2016-11-15 20:09 ` Nathan Fontenot
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