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From: Harry Wei <jiaweiwei.xiyou@gmail.com>
To: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org,
	greg@kroah.com, randy.dunlap@oracle.com, joe@perches.com
Subject: Re: [Oops 1/2]Something wrong with copy_from_user() function
Date: Sun, 1 May 2011 09:21:30 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110501012127.GA2378@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LNX.2.00.1104302311530.12035@pobox.suse.cz>

On Sat, Apr 30, 2011 at 11:13:10PM +0200, Jiri Kosina wrote:
> On Sat, 30 Apr 2011, Harry Wei wrote:
> 
> 
> wpa_set_keys() function (from staging drivers) in your kernel uses 
> copy_from_user() without proper bounds checking, and thus can overflow and 
> corrupt memory.
Hmmm, i see.

Thanks.
Harry Wei.
> 

  reply	other threads:[~2011-05-01  1:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-04-30  6:13 [Oops 1/2]Something wrong with copy_from_user() function Harry Wei
2011-04-30 12:41 ` Andy Lutomirski
2011-04-30 21:13 ` Jiri Kosina
2011-05-01  1:21   ` Harry Wei [this message]
2011-05-01  2:39     ` Greg KH

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