Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 31 Oct 2017 09:42:48 +0100 | From | Greg KH <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] hv: kvp: Avoid reading past allocated blocks from KVP file |
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On Mon, Oct 30, 2017 at 05:08:03PM -0700, Long Li wrote: > From: Paul Meyer <Paul.Meyer@microsoft.com> > > While reading in more than one block (50) of KVP records, the allocation goes > per block, but the reads used the total number of allocated records (without > resetting the pointer/stream). This causes the records buffer to overrun when > the refresh reads more than one block over the previous capacity (e.g. reading > more than 100 KVP records whereas the in-memory database was empty before).
Please wrap changelogs at 72 columns like your editor asked you to...
> > Fix this by reading the correct number of KVP records from file each time. > > Signed-off-by: Paul Meyer <Paul.Meyer@microsoft.com> > ---
Why is your name not also on the signed-off-by chain if you are forwarding on a patch from someone else?
Is this patch also needed on stable kernels?
thanks,
greg k-h
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