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From: Lee Jones <lee.jones@linaro.org>
To: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org,
	Ohad Ben-Cohen <ohad@wizery.com>,
	"devicetree@vger.kernel.org" <devicetree@vger.kernel.org>,
	Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com>,
	kernel@stlinux.com, Nathan_Lynch@mentor.com,
	"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Bjorn Andersson <bjorn@kryo.se>,
	ludovic.barre@st.com, Maxime Coquelin <maxime.coquelin@st.com>
Subject: Re: [RESEND v4 2/6] remoteproc: debugfs: Add ability to boot remote processor using debugfs
Date: Fri, 4 Dec 2015 08:24:27 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20151204082427.GC26902@x1> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2473673.tSymyNlg3h@wuerfel>

On Thu, 03 Dec 2015, Arnd Bergmann wrote:

> On Thursday 03 December 2015 17:28:30 Lee Jones wrote:
> > > 
> > > Ah, interesting. I haven't tried myself, and just tried to read the
> > > code. Maybe glibc already catches zero-length writes before it gets
> > > into the kernel, or I just missed the part of the syscall that checks
> > > for this.
> > 
> > Glibc is responsible indeed:
> >   
> >   http://osxr.org/glibc/source/io/write.c
> 
> Ok, so an attacker can force the stack overflow by calling
> syscall(__NR_write, fd, p, 0) if that has any potential value,
> but normal users won't hit this case.

Right.  I have fixed the issue (and another one I found) anyway, if
only to rid the GCC warning.

-- 
Lee Jones
Linaro STMicroelectronics Landing Team Lead
Linaro.org │ Open source software for ARM SoCs
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  parent reply	other threads:[~2015-12-04  8:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-11-24 13:14 [RESEND v4 0/6] remoteproc: Add driver for STMicroelectronics platforms Lee Jones
2015-11-24 13:14 ` [RESEND v4 1/6] remoteproc: dt: Provide bindings for ST's Remote Processor Controller driver Lee Jones
2015-11-25  0:07   ` Rob Herring
     [not found]   ` <1448370862-19120-2-git-send-email-lee.jones-QSEj5FYQhm4dnm+yROfE0A@public.gmane.org>
2015-12-28 18:33     ` Bjorn Andersson
2015-11-24 13:14 ` [RESEND v4 2/6] remoteproc: debugfs: Add ability to boot remote processor using debugfs Lee Jones
     [not found]   ` <1448370862-19120-3-git-send-email-lee.jones-QSEj5FYQhm4dnm+yROfE0A@public.gmane.org>
2015-11-27 17:00     ` Bjorn Andersson
     [not found]       ` <CAJAp7Og2MPapOQmCSB9o4qwQHsA8_iyAWPhjHYPw6J=xCK2xew-JsoAwUIsXosN+BqQ9rBEUg@public.gmane.org>
2015-12-03 12:26         ` Lee Jones
2015-12-03 12:49           ` Arnd Bergmann
2015-12-03 13:03             ` Lee Jones
2015-12-03 13:19               ` Arnd Bergmann
2015-12-03 17:28                 ` Lee Jones
2015-12-03 21:12                   ` Arnd Bergmann
2015-12-03 21:22                     ` Bjorn Andersson
2015-12-04  8:24                     ` Lee Jones [this message]
2015-12-28 18:38                       ` Bjorn Andersson
2016-01-12 10:53                         ` Lee Jones
2015-11-24 13:14 ` [RESEND v4 3/6] remoteproc: Supply controller driver for ST's Remote Processors Lee Jones
     [not found]   ` <1448370862-19120-4-git-send-email-lee.jones-QSEj5FYQhm4dnm+yROfE0A@public.gmane.org>
2015-12-28 18:33     ` Bjorn Andersson
2015-11-24 13:14 ` [RESEND v4 4/6] MAINTAINERS: Add ST's Remote Processor Driver to ARM/STI ARCHITECTURE Lee Jones
2015-11-24 13:14 ` [RESEND v4 5/6] ARM: STiH407: Add nodes for RemoteProc Lee Jones
2015-11-24 13:14 ` [RESEND v4 6/6] ARM: STiH407: Move over to using the 'reserved-memory' API for obtaining DMA memory Lee Jones
2015-11-26  8:45 ` [RESEND v4 0/6] remoteproc: Add driver for STMicroelectronics platforms Ohad Ben-Cohen
     [not found]   ` <CAK=WgbZbiq_BAUEti9tWUtWqZPU_4gDJ5Mfqur=Ou2N4Ea+2GQ-JsoAwUIsXosN+BqQ9rBEUg@public.gmane.org>
2015-11-26  9:10     ` Lee Jones
2015-11-26  9:32       ` Ohad Ben-Cohen
     [not found]         ` <CAK=WgbbWTdDGMYOFjVO3s1bt1r5iou6Q-hHOh4SZG=rQuEa2eQ-JsoAwUIsXosN+BqQ9rBEUg@public.gmane.org>
2015-12-28 18:41           ` Bjorn Andersson
     [not found]             ` <CAJAp7OgZwf-Cd+Drypqo92YNJBYtB-XCbW-noy-4BB5JZojRnw-JsoAwUIsXosN+BqQ9rBEUg@public.gmane.org>
2015-12-29  8:23               ` Ohad Ben-Cohen
2016-01-12 12:30                 ` Lee Jones

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