On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 04:08:59PM +0800, Lv Zheng wrote: > This patch enhances sanity checks on message size to avoid potential buffer > overflow. > > The kernel IPMI message size is IPMI_MAX_MSG_LENGTH(272 bytes) while the > ACPI specification defined IPMI message size is 64 bytes. The difference > is not handled by the original codes. This may cause crash in the response > handling codes. > This patch fixes this gap and also combines rx_data/tx_data to use single > data/len pair since they need not be seperated. > > Signed-off-by: Lv Zheng <lv.zh...@intel.com> > Reviewed-by: Huang Ying <ying.hu...@intel.com> > --- > drivers/acpi/acpi_ipmi.c | 100 > ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------------------ > 1 file changed, 61 insertions(+), 39 deletions(-)
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