[patch] nvme: lightnvm: buffer overflow in nvme_nvm_identity()

Matias Bjørling m at bjorling.me
Tue Jan 26 01:56:57 PST 2016


On 01/26/2016 10:27 AM, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> nvme_nvm_id->ppaf is 4 bytes larger than nvm_id->ppaf.  We're using the
> larger size struct for the sizeof() so we end up corrupting the
> first four bytes of nvm_id->groups[].  It doesn't look like we actually
> want to copy those last bytes anyway.
> 

Thanks, Dan. You are right. The four bytes are overwritten afterwards
and hid the issue.



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