Am 13.04.2011 17:51, schrieb Greg KH: > 2.6.32-longterm review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us > know. > > ------------------ > > From: David Sterba <[email protected]> > > commit b4232a22776aa5d063f890d21ca69870dbbe431b upstream. > > Static analyzer of clang found a dead store which appears to be a bug in > reading count of items in SEQOF field, only the lower byte of word is > stored. This may lead to corrupted read and communication shutdown. > > The bug has been in the module since it's first inclusion into linux > kernel. > > [Patrick: the bug is real, but without practical consequence since the > largest amount of sequence-of members we parse is 30.]
As mentioned in the changelog, I don't think this patch is of any relevance for -stable since its a purely theoretical problem. _______________________________________________ stable mailing list [email protected] http://linux.kernel.org/mailman/listinfo/stable
