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SubjectRe: BUG: KASAN: global-out-of-bounds in ata_exec_internal_sg+0x50f/0xc70
On Tue, 16 Jul 2019 11:28:29 -0700
Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com> wrote:

> The cited code looks like a check comparing that the pointer distance
> is greater than the size of bytes being passed in. I'd wager
> someone's calling memmove with overlapping memory regions when they
> really wanted memcpy. Maybe a better question, is why was memmove
> ever used; if there was some invariant that the memory regions
> overlapped, why is that invariant no longer holding.

I'm confused by the above statement as memmove() allows overlapping of
src and dest, where as memcpy() does not.

-- Steve

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