[PATCH] remoteproc: avoid stack overflow in debugfs file

Ohad Ben-Cohen ohad at wizery.com
Thu Nov 26 00:14:02 PST 2015


On Fri, Nov 20, 2015 at 7:26 PM, Arnd Bergmann <arnd at arndb.de> wrote:
> Recent gcc versions warn about reading from a negative offset of
> an on-stack array:
>
> drivers/remoteproc/remoteproc_debugfs.c: In function 'rproc_recovery_write':
> drivers/remoteproc/remoteproc_debugfs.c:167:9: warning: 'buf[4294967295u]' may be used uninitialized in this function [-Wmaybe-uninitialized]
>
> I don't see anything in sys_write() that prevents us from
> being called with a zero 'count' argument, so we should
> add an extra check in rproc_recovery_write() to prevent the
> access and avoid the warning.
>
> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd at arndb.de>
> Fixes: 2e37abb89a2e ("remoteproc: create a 'recovery' debugfs entry")

Applied to remoteproc-fixes, thanks.



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