Re: [PATCH v2] radio-bcm2048.c: fix wrong overflow check

Pali Rohár
2014-05-09T16:10:23Z

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On Monday 05 May 2014 15:34:29 Jiri Kosina wrote:
> On Tue, 22 Apr 2014, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> > From: Pali Rohár <pali.rohar@gmail.com>
> >
> > This patch fixes an off by one check in
> > bcm2048_set_region().
> >
> > Reported-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
> > Signed-off-by: Pali Rohár <pali.rohar@gmail.com>
> > Signed-off-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
> > Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
> > ---
> > v2: Send it to the correct list. Re-work the changelog.
> >
> > This patch has been floating around for four months but
> > Pavel and Pali are knuckle-heads and don't know how to use
> > get_maintainer.pl so they never send it to linux-media.
> >
> > Also Pali doesn't give reporter credit and Pavel steals
> > authorship credit.
> >
> > Also when you try explain to them about how to send patches
> > correctly they complain that they have been trying but it
> > is too much work so now I have to do it. During the past
> > four months thousands of other people have been able to
> > send patches in the correct format to the correct list but
> > it is too difficult for Pavel and Pali... *sigh*.
>
> Seems like it's not in linux-next as of today, so I am taking
> it now. Thanks,

I still do not see this patch in torvalds branch... So what is
needed to include this security buffer overflow patch into
mainline & stable kernels?

--
Pali Rohár
pali.rohar@gmail.com

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