Re: [PATCH] hptiop: avoid buffer overflow when returning sense data

[Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>]

On Mon, 15 Oct 2007 14:42:52 +0800 HighPoint Linux Team <linux@highpoint-tech.com> wrote:

> 
> avoid buffer overflow when returning sense data.
> 

That's really not enough information, sorry.

> index 8b384fa..d32a4a9 100644
> --- a/drivers/scsi/hptiop.c
> +++ b/drivers/scsi/hptiop.c
> @@ -375,8 +375,9 @@ static void hptiop_host_request_callback
>  		scp->result = SAM_STAT_CHECK_CONDITION;
>  		memset(&scp->sense_buffer,
>  				0, sizeof(scp->sense_buffer));
> -		memcpy(&scp->sense_buffer,
> -			&req->sg_list, le32_to_cpu(req->dataxfer_length));
> +		memcpy(&scp->sense_buffer, &req->sg_list,
> +				min(sizeof(scp->sense_buffer),
> +					le32_to_cpu(req->dataxfer_length)));
>  		break;
>  
>  	default:

See, we know what the fix does, but we don't know what the consequences are
if the user's kernel doesn't have this fix.

So we are not able to work out whether this fix should be backported to
2.6.23.x and even to 2.6.22.x?