From: "Timofei V. Bondarenko" <timm@ipi.ac.ru>
To: linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org
Subject: misaligned memory access in cmdlinepart.c
Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2005 15:03:54 +0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <426F719A.2000903@ipi.ac.ru> (raw)
Hi,
in mtdpart_setup_real()/newpart() command line parser
'this_mtd' structure can be misaligned,
it may cause exception on some kind of CPU.
That happened because the structure allocated in a variable length area
and got mixed with partition names.
The patch follows.
Regards.
Timofei.
--- cmdlinepart.c 2005-04-18 18:06:43.000000000 +0400
+++ linux-2.6.x/drivers/mtd/cmdlinepart.c 2005-04-18 18:40:02.971778640
+0400
@@ -234,12 +234,14 @@ static int mtdpart_setup_real(char *s)
* parse one mtd. have it reserve memory for the
* struct cmdline_mtd_partition and the mtd-id string.
*/
+#define THIS_MTD_ALIGN_CONST (sizeof(void*)-1)
parts = newpart(p + 1, /* cmdline */
&s, /* out: updated cmdline ptr */
&num_parts, /* out: number of parts */
0, /* first partition */
(unsigned char**)&this_mtd, /* out: extra mem */
- mtd_id_len + 1 + sizeof(*this_mtd));
+ mtd_id_len + 1 + sizeof(*this_mtd) +
+ THIS_MTD_ALIGN_CONST);
if(!parts)
{
/*
@@ -252,7 +254,11 @@ static int mtdpart_setup_real(char *s)
return 0;
}
- /* enter results */
+ /* align this_mtd */
+ this_mtd = (struct cmdline_mtd_partition *)
+ (~THIS_MTD_ALIGN_CONST &
+ THIS_MTD_ALIGN_CONST + (unsigned long)(char*)this_mtd);
+ /* enter results */
this_mtd->parts = parts;
this_mtd->num_parts = num_parts;
this_mtd->mtd_id = (char*)(this_mtd + 1);
next reply other threads:[~2005-04-27 11:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-04-27 11:03 Timofei V. Bondarenko [this message]
2005-06-06 13:26 ` misaligned memory access in cmdlinepart.c Timofei V. Bondarenko
2005-06-06 13:34 ` Jörn Engel
[not found] ` <42A4572C.8020107@ipi.ac.ru>
[not found] ` <20050606141453.GF31739@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de>
2005-06-06 15:28 ` Timofei V. Bondarenko
[not found] ` <42A460BB.50800@ipi.ac.ru>
[not found] ` <20050606162648.GJ31739@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de>
2005-06-06 16:49 ` Timofei V. Bondarenko
2005-06-06 17:44 ` Jörn Engel
2005-06-07 8:30 ` Timofei V. Bondarenko
2005-06-07 9:01 ` Vitaly Wool
2005-06-07 9:26 ` Timofei V. Bondarenko
2005-06-07 11:34 ` Timofei V. Bondarenko
2005-06-07 13:02 ` Jörn Engel
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