[dm-devel] [PATCH 5/6] kpartx: fix device checks

[Martin Wilck]

On Tue, 2017-05-09 at 11:57 -0500, Benjamin Marzinski wrote:
> There are a number of issues in the the kpartx device checking code.
> First, it accepts files that are neither regular files or a block
> device
> nodes (you can run kpartx on character devices or directories, and it
> will treat them as block devices). When trying to figure out the
> basename of a device, the code returns garbage if the path doesn't
> include a '/'. Finally, the set_delimiter code can access memory
> outside
> of the string if an empty string is passed in.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Marzinski <bmarzins at redhat.com>

Reviewed-by: Martin Wilck <mwilck at suse.com>

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