On Fri, Jan 05, 2018 at 05:11:10PM -0800, Dan Williams wrote: > Static analysis reports that 'offset' may be a user controlled value > that is used as a data dependency reading from a raw_frag_vec buffer. > In order to avoid potential leaks of kernel memory values, block > speculative execution of the instruction stream that could issue further > reads based on an invalid '*(rfv->c + offset)' value. > > Based on an original patch by Elena Reshetova.
I thought we "proved" that this patch was not needed at all, based on previous review. It doesn't look like that review cycle got incorporated into this patch series at all, I guess I have to go back and do it all again :( thanks, greg k-h
