From: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
To: a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: mm/mpol: Make MPOL_LOCAL a real policy
Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2012 23:06:47 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120927200647.GU13767@mwanda> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120521133838.GA12116@elgon.mountain>
Whatever happened with this? It's a small read past the end of the
array, but probably it should be fixed.
regards,
dan carpenter
On Mon, May 21, 2012 at 04:38:39PM +0300, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> Hello Peter Zijlstra,
>
> The patch 03ed7b538ca0: "mm/mpol: Make MPOL_LOCAL a real policy" from
> Mar 19, 2012, leads to the following warning:
> mm/mempolicy.c:2591 mpol_parse_str()
> error: buffer overflow 'policy_modes' 5 <= 5
>
> mm/mempolicy.c
> 2590 for (mode = 0; mode < MPOL_MAX; mode++) {
> 2591 if (!strcmp(str, policy_modes[mode])) {
> 2592 break;
> 2593 }
> 2594 }
>
> The problem is that MPOL_NOOP is not defined in policy_modes[] so we
> search past the end of the array.
>
> regards,
> dan carpenter
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