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From: Brian W Hart <hartb@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
To: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] powernv: eeh: fix possible buffer overrun in ioda_eeh_phb_diag()
Date: Fri, 20 Dec 2013 12:15:21 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20131220181520.GA5480@oc3347516403.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20131220015937.GA13868@shangw.(null)>

On Fri, Dec 20, 2013 at 09:59:37AM +0800, Gavin Shan wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 20, 2013 at 09:35:39AM +0800, Gavin Shan wrote:
> >On Thu, Dec 19, 2013 at 05:14:07PM -0600, Brian W Hart wrote:
> >>PHB diagnostic buffer may be smaller than PAGE_SIZE, especially when
> >>PAGE_SIZE > 4KB.
> >>
> >
> >I think you're talking about that PAGE_SIZE could be configured
> >to have variable size (e.g. 4KB). So it's not safe to pass PAGE_SIZE
> >to OPAL API opal_pci_get_phb_diag_data2(). Instead, we should pass
> >PNV_PCI_DIAG_BUF_SIZE and it makes sense to me :-)

Yeah, I noticed the problem because our test machine has PAGE_SIZE of
64K with the buffer only being 8K.

[...]
> Sorry, Brian. It has been fixed as part of the following commit, which
> has been put into Ben's powerpc-next branch :-)

Thank you!

      reply	other threads:[~2013-12-20 18:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-12-19 23:14 [PATCH] powernv: eeh: fix possible buffer overrun in ioda_eeh_phb_diag() Brian W Hart
2013-12-20  1:35 ` Gavin Shan
2013-12-20  1:59   ` Gavin Shan
2013-12-20 18:15     ` Brian W Hart [this message]

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