| To: | Eric Sandeen <sandeen@xxxxxxxxxx> |
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| Subject: | Re: [PATCH] xfsprogs: avoid array overflow in pf_batch_read() |
| From: | Dave Chinner <david@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> |
| Date: | Mon, 2 Sep 2013 20:14:58 +1000 |
| Cc: | xfs-oss <xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx> |
| Delivered-to: | xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx |
| In-reply-to: | <522017A4.8060400@xxxxxxxxxx> |
| References: | <522017A4.8060400@xxxxxxxxxx> |
| User-agent: | Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) |
On Thu, Aug 29, 2013 at 10:55:16PM -0500, Eric Sandeen wrote: > The while loop in pf_batch_read, and the code preceeding it, is really... > quite a thing. I'd love to rewrite it, but I haven't yet found > a particularly cleaner way. > > It cleverly hides the fact that we might increment "num" past the > last index of bplist[] and then assign to it. This corrupts memory. > > Rather than major surgery for now, just go for the simple fix, > and break out of the loop if we've increased "num" past the > last index. looks good. Reviewed-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@xxxxxxxxxx> -- Dave Chinner david@xxxxxxxxxxxxx |
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