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From: Darren Hart <dvhart@infradead.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] dell-wmi: Fix access out of memory
Date: Sun, 12 Oct 2014 15:32:38 -0700
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On Sun, Oct 12, 2014 at 06:45:06PM +0200, Pali Roh=E1r wrote:
> On Tuesday 30 September 2014 01:16:23 Darren Hart wrote:
> > On September 29, 2014 4:26:03 PM PDT, "Rafael J. Wysocki"=20
> <rjw@rjwysocki.net> wrote:
> > >On Monday, September 29, 2014 02:30:29 PM Darren Hart wrote:
> > >> On Mon, Sep 29, 2014 at 03:10:51PM +0200, Pali Roh=E1r wrote:
> > >> > Without this patch driver dell-wmi is trying to access
> > >> > elements of
> > >
> > >dynamically
> > >
> > >> > allocated array without checking array size. This can
> > >> > lead to
> > >
> > >memory corruption
> > >
> > >> > or kernel panic. This patch adds missing checks for array
> > >> > size.
> > >> >=20
> > >> > Signed-off-by: Pali Roh=E1r <pali.rohar@gmail.com>
> > >>=20
> > >> Looks good to me. Rafael, any concerns?
> > >
> > >Not anything obvious.
> >=20
> > Queued, thanks.
> >=20
> > >> Cc: linux-acpi
> > >
> > >Thanks!
> > >
>=20
> Now I see that this patch is in linus tree. Can you sent it to=20
> stable trees too?

Hi Pali,

Please see Documentation/stable_kernel_rules.txt for details on how to =
mark
patches for stable when you submit them. Now that it is in mainline, th=
e process
is a bit more manual, you'll find instructions for how to go about that=
 in the
same document.

Thanks,

--=20
Darren Hart
Intel Open Source Technology Center