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* [PATCH 1/3] [2.6.25-rc5] Fix a memory overflow bug when copying NULL internal package element object to external.
@ 2008-03-12  0:06 Thomas Renninger
  2008-03-12  3:53 ` Len Brown
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 2+ messages in thread
From: Thomas Renninger @ 2008-03-12  0:06 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Len Brown; +Cc: linux-acpi, Zhang, Rui, ming.m.lin

From: Lin Ming <ming.m.lin@intel.com>

Fix a memory overflow bug when copying
NULL internal package element object to external.

Signed-off-by: Lin Ming <ming.m.lin@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Zhang Rui <rui.zhang@intel.com>
Tested-by: Thomas Renninger <trenn@suse.de>

---
 drivers/acpi/utilities/utobject.c |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

Index: linux-2.6/drivers/acpi/utilities/utobject.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.orig/drivers/acpi/utilities/utobject.c
+++ linux-2.6/drivers/acpi/utilities/utobject.c
@@ -432,7 +432,7 @@ acpi_ut_get_simple_object_size(union acp
 	 * element -- which is legal)
 	 */
 	if (!internal_object) {
-		*obj_length = 0;
+		*obj_length = sizeof(union acpi_object);
 		return_ACPI_STATUS(AE_OK);
 	}
 




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