This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
block, sx8: fix pointer math issue getting fw version
to the 3.0-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
block-sx8-fix-pointer-math-issue-getting-fw-version.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.0 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <[email protected]> know about it.
>From ea5f4db8ece896c2ab9eafa0924148a2596c52e4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Dan Carpenter <[email protected]>
Date: Sat, 3 Mar 2012 12:09:17 +0100
Subject: block, sx8: fix pointer math issue getting fw version
From: Dan Carpenter <[email protected]>
commit ea5f4db8ece896c2ab9eafa0924148a2596c52e4 upstream.
"mem" is type u8. We need parenthesis here or it screws up the pointer
math probably leading to an oops.
Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Jeff Garzik <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>
---
drivers/block/sx8.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
--- a/drivers/block/sx8.c
+++ b/drivers/block/sx8.c
@@ -1116,7 +1116,7 @@ static inline void carm_handle_resp(stru
break;
case MISC_GET_FW_VER: {
struct carm_fw_ver *ver = (struct carm_fw_ver *)
- mem + sizeof(struct carm_msg_get_fw_ver);
+ (mem + sizeof(struct carm_msg_get_fw_ver));
if (!error) {
host->fw_ver = le32_to_cpu(ver->version);
host->flags |= (ver->features & FL_FW_VER_MASK);
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from [email protected]
are
queue-3.0/block-sx8-fix-pointer-math-issue-getting-fw-version.patch
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