On Fri, Nov 25, 2011 at 04:46:51PM -0500, Xi Wang wrote:
> There is a potential integer overflow in do_insnlist_ioctl() if
> userspace passes in a large insnlist.n_insns.  The call to kmalloc()
> would allocate a small buffer, leading to a memory corruption.
> 
> The bug was reported by Dan Carpenter <[email protected]>
> and Haogang Chen <[email protected]>.  The patch was suggested by
> Ian Abbott <[email protected]> and Lars-Peter Clausen <[email protected]>.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Xi Wang <[email protected]>

Hm, I already applied Dan's previous patch, what should I do with this
one now?  Revert Dan's and apply this one, or apply both of them, or
something else?

confused,

greg k-h
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