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From: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, jeffrey.mitchell@gmail.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] dmi: sanity check BIOS tables
Date: Sun, 07 Jun 2009 10:57:29 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4A2B80F9.9070103@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090606230137.17029.51286.stgit@t61.ukuu.org.uk>

On 06/07/2009 01:01 AM, Alan Cox wrote:
> @@ -260,6 +276,11 @@ static void __init dmi_save_ipmi_device(const struct dmi_header *dm)
>  	struct dmi_device *dev;
>  	void * data;
>  
> +	if (((u8 *)dm) + dm->length > dmi_end) {

I think this should be >= too.

> +		printk(KERN_ERR "dmi_save_ipmi_device: table overrun.\n");
> +		return;
> +	}
> +

  reply	other threads:[~2009-06-07  8:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-06-06 23:01 [PATCH] dmi: sanity check BIOS tables Alan Cox
2009-06-07  8:57 ` Jiri Slaby [this message]
2009-06-07 13:56   ` Jeff Mitchell
2009-06-07 19:08     ` Jiri Slaby
2009-06-08  2:08       ` Jeff Mitchell

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