[dm-devel] [PATCH v4 1/2] block: Fix a buffer overrun in bio_integrity_split()

Martin K. Petersen martin.petersen at oracle.com
Wed Oct 24 16:57:45 UTC 2012


>>>>> "Tejun" == Tejun Heo <tj at kernel.org> writes:

Tejun> If Martin is happy with it, I'm not gonna push it but putting the
Tejun> respective storage member after one containing vararray at the
Tejun> end is a legit way to allocate the area statically. As long as
Tejun> the storage field is marked as such and not accessed directly, it
Tejun> doesn't matter whether there's padding inbetween or not. 

The embedded array is still at the end. Kent just added an explicit
pointer for use in the bio_pair corner case.

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Martin K. Petersen	Oracle Linux Engineering




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