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From: Sergio Gonzalez Monroy <sergio.gonzalez.monroy@intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] mem: fix malloc_elem resize with padding
Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2017 11:18:10 +0100
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On 08/06/2017 20:12, Jamie Lavigne wrote:
> Currently when a malloc_elem is split after resizing, any padding
> present in the elem is ignored.  This causes the resized elem to be too
> small when padding is present, and user data can overwrite the beginning
> of the following malloc_elem.
>
> Solve this by including the size of the padding when computing where to
> split the malloc_elem.
>
> Fixes: af75078fece3 ("first public release")
>
> Signed-off-by: Jamie Lavigne <lavignen@amazon.com>
> ---

Acked-by: Sergio Gonzalez Monroy <sergio.gonzalez.monroy@intel.com>