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From: Wolfram Sang <wsa@the-dreams.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] eeprom: at24: Add support for large EEPROMs connected to
 SMBus adapters
Date: Thu, 19 Mar 2015 22:39:37 +0100
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> Turns out this is really easy to reproduce. One process reads
> the eeprom over and over again, another runs i2cdump in a loop,
> and voila ... lots of corruptions. Scary, especially considering
> how wide-spread this kind of i2c access is in the kernel.

A coccinelle script should at least be able to find vulnerable code
paths, maybe even fix it. But not today for me... Thanks for testing and
sharing the results!


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