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From: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
To: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
Cc: linux-block@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] cdrom: information leak in cdrom_ioctl_media_changed()
Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2018 08:21:44 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <b2f8739b-d93d-e89c-ec70-a96299f47a0c@kernel.dk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180418095130.GA26904@mwanda>

On 4/18/18 3:51 AM, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> This cast is wrong.  "cdi->capacity" is an int and "arg" is an unsigned
> long.  The way the check is written now, if one of the high 32 bits is
> set then we could read outside the info->slots[] array.
> 
> This bug is pretty old and it predates git.

Thanks Dan, applied.

-- 
Jens Axboe

  parent reply	other threads:[~2018-04-18 14:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-04-18  9:51 [PATCH] cdrom: information leak in cdrom_ioctl_media_changed() Dan Carpenter
2018-04-18 10:35 ` Christoph Hellwig
2018-04-18 14:21 ` Jens Axboe [this message]
2018-04-25 17:37 ` Scott Bauer

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