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From: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
To: stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
	Sasha Levin <levinsasha928@gmail.com>,
	David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>,
	linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org,
	Brad Spengler <spender@grsecurity.net>
Subject: [stable] mtdchar: fix offset overflow detection
Date: Mon, 15 Apr 2013 01:27:10 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1365985630.2783.90.camel@deadeye.wl.decadent.org.uk> (raw)

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Brad Spengler pointed out this fix from 3.6 was missing from the earlier
stable branches:

commit 9c603e53d380459fb62fec7cd085acb0b74ac18f
Author: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Date:   Sat Sep 8 12:57:30 2012 -0700

    mtdchar: fix offset overflow detection

It looks cleanly cherry-pickable, although I haven't yet tested this.

Ben.

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Ben Hutchings
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             reply	other threads:[~2013-04-15  0:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-04-15  0:27 Ben Hutchings [this message]
2013-04-15  1:30 ` [stable] mtdchar: fix offset overflow detection Greg KH
2013-04-15 12:23 ` Luis Henriques

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