From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Sudip Mukherjee Date: Mon, 12 Oct 2015 11:14:17 +0000 Subject: Re: [RESEND PATCH v2] staging/wlan-ng: Fix potential buffer overflow in firmware handling Message-Id: <20151012110217.GF13596@sudip-pc> List-Id: References: <1444506976-11098-1-git-send-email-theidsieck@leenox.de> In-Reply-To: <1444506976-11098-1-git-send-email-theidsieck@leenox.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org On Sat, Oct 10, 2015 at 09:56:16PM +0200, Tillmann Heidsieck wrote: > This patch fixes a potential buffer overflow detected by smatch. > > pda16 has length 512, while processing an element with index < 512 we > are checking for an end marker in the next element. This poses a > potential buffer overflow if no end marker is present. > > Signed-off-by: Tillmann Heidsieck > --- Confused. This you have already sent previously and has already been merged by Greg. 4ccb726c728c ("staging: wlan-ng fix buffer overflow in firmware handling") Signed-off-by: Tillmann Heidsieck Dated: Wed Sep 23 regards sudip