From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de>
Cc: James Bottomley <jbottomley@parallels.com>,
linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, Jeremy Linton <jlinton@tributary.com>,
Doug Gilbert <dgilbert@interlog.com>,
Kai Makisara <kai.makisara@kolumbus.fi>,
"Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCHv2] Add EVPD page 0x83 entries to sysfs
Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2014 06:15:34 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140210141534.GA17671@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1392030699-105348-1-git-send-email-hare@suse.de>
On Mon, Feb 10, 2014 at 12:11:39PM +0100, Hannes Reinecke wrote:
> + int vpd_len = 255;
> + unsigned char *buffer;
> +retry:
> + buffer = kmalloc(vpd_len, GFP_KERNEL);
> + if (!buffer)
> + return;
> +
> + ret = scsi_get_vpd_page(sdev, 0x83, buffer, vpd_len);
> + if (ret) {
> + kfree(buffer);
> + return;
> + }
> +
> + vpd_len = (buffer[2] << 8) + buffer[3];
> + if (vpd_len > 255) {
> + kfree(buffer);
> + goto retry;
Won't this create an infinite loop if the VPD is longer than 255 bytes?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-02-10 14:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-02-10 11:11 [PATCHv2] Add EVPD page 0x83 entries to sysfs Hannes Reinecke
2014-02-10 14:15 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2014-02-10 14:55 ` Hannes Reinecke
2014-02-10 18:06 ` Jeremy Linton
2014-02-10 19:06 ` Douglas Gilbert
2014-02-11 10:52 ` Hannes Reinecke
2014-02-11 8:32 ` Hannes Reinecke
2014-02-11 16:56 ` Jeremy Linton
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