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From: Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>
Subject: Re: [RFC 1/5] bus/pci: fix allocation of pci device path
Date: Sun, 18 Nov 2018 16:03:26 +0100
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To: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
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06/11/2018 22:48, Stephen Hemminger:
> The pci_resource_by_index called strlen() on uninitialized
> memory which would lead to the wrong size of memory allocated
> for the path portion of the resource map. This would either cause
> excessively large allocation, or worse memory corruption.
> 
> Coverity Issue: 300868
> Fixes: ea9d56226e72 ("pci: introduce function to map uio resource by index")
> Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>

This patch is RFC but Ferruh (UIO maintainer) was not Cc'ed.
I feel this bug is critical. Please advise.