From: Roland Dreier <roland@topspin.com>
To: Kevin Corry <corryk@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Linux Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/8] dm: prevent possible buffer overflow in ioctl interface
Date: 27 Feb 2003 08:25:25 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <52y941pu6i.fsf@topspin.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <03022708365304.05199@boiler>
> + char *name = kmalloc(DM_NAME_LEN + strlen(DM_DIR) + 1);
> + if (!name) {
> + return -ENOMEM;
> + }
Also, kmalloc() needs a second "GFP_xxx" parameter (I guess GFP_KERNEL
in this case, although I don't know the context this function is
called from).
- Roland
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-02-27 16:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-02-26 17:05 device-mapper patchset 2.5.63-dm-1 Joe Thornber
2003-02-26 17:08 ` [PATCH 1/8] dm: ioctl interface wasn't dropping a table reference Joe Thornber
2003-02-26 17:08 ` [PATCH 2/8] dm: __LOW macro fix no. 1 Joe Thornber
2003-02-26 17:09 ` [PATCH 3/8] dm: prevent possible buffer overflow in ioctl interface Joe Thornber
2003-02-26 21:04 ` Horst von Brand
2003-02-27 14:20 ` Kevin Corry
2003-02-27 14:36 ` Kevin Corry
2003-02-27 16:25 ` Roland Dreier [this message]
2003-02-27 16:34 ` Kevin Corry
2003-02-27 22:05 ` Kevin Corry
2003-02-26 17:10 ` [PATCH 4/8] dm: deregister the misc device before removing /dev/mapper Joe Thornber
2003-02-26 17:11 ` [PATCH 5/8] dm: bug in error path for unknown target type Joe Thornber
2003-02-26 17:11 ` [PATCH 6/8] dm: allow slashes in dm device names Joe Thornber
2003-02-26 17:38 ` Greg KH
2003-02-26 18:17 ` Kevin Corry
2003-02-26 18:20 ` Greg KH
2003-02-26 17:12 ` [PATCH 7/8] dm: __LOW macro fix no. 2 Joe Thornber
2003-02-26 18:14 ` Greg KH
2003-02-27 8:55 ` Joe Thornber
2003-02-27 9:55 ` Joe Thornber
2003-02-27 16:17 ` Horst von Brand
2003-02-27 16:33 ` Joe Thornber
2003-02-27 17:47 ` Greg KH
2003-02-27 9:34 ` Jakob Oestergaard
2003-02-27 10:01 ` Joe Thornber
2003-02-27 12:55 ` Jakob Oestergaard
2003-02-26 17:13 ` [PATCH 8/8] dm: return correct error codes from dm_table_add_target() Joe Thornber
[not found] <OF06EBF3D5.39937A14-ON87256CDB.004FD627@us.ibm.com>
2003-02-28 14:59 ` [PATCH 3/8] dm: prevent possible buffer overflow in ioctl interface Kevin Corry
2003-02-28 18:14 ` Horst von Brand
2003-02-28 18:31 ` Kevin Corry
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