From: Marek Lindner <lindner_marek@yahoo.de>
To: The list for a Better Approach To Mobile Ad-hoc Networking
<b.a.t.m.a.n@open-mesh.net>
Subject: Re: [B.A.T.M.A.N.] [PATCH] batman-adv-kernelland: Fix memory corruption bug
Date: Thu, 4 Dec 2008 10:30:03 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200812041030.17606.lindner_marek@yahoo.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <DFF8A357-1AF1-4F11-BE89-46DD131FA7FF@gmail.com>
Hey,
> Turned out to be a simple typo, which I've fixed in the following
> patch. When resizing the packet_buff struct in batman_if, the new
> length was being updated but the old length was being used for the
> kmalloc(), causing something later to think it had more memory
> allocated to write to, hence writing past the end of the allocation.
wow - nice catch !
I happily applied your patch (revision 1173). :-)
Regards,
Marek
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-12-04 2:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-12-04 1:14 [B.A.T.M.A.N.] [PATCH] batman-adv-kernelland: Fix memory corruption bug Scott Raynel
2008-12-04 2:30 ` Marek Lindner [this message]
2008-12-04 11:35 ` Simon Wunderlich
2008-12-05 10:40 ` Scott Raynel
2008-12-05 19:51 ` Simon Wunderlich
2008-12-12 9:08 ` Scott Raynel
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