[PATCH] iop-adma: Corrected array overflow in RAID6 Xscale(R) test.

Sergei Shtylyov sshtylyov at mvista.com
Thu Mar 1 05:48:05 EST 2012


Hello.

On 01-03-2012 0:28, Don Morris wrote:

> Reported as: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=42677

> Test code pq_src array was grown by two elements to correspond with actual
> usage (IOP_ADMA_NUM_SRC_TEST+2), stack consumption was kept constant by
> modifying the pq_dest two element array which is only used when pq_src
> is referenced up to IOP_ADMA_NUM_SRC_TEST elements into the address
> of the new last two elements of the pq_src array. This is presumed to
> be the original intent but would be reliant on compilers always having
> pq_dest contiguous with the final element of pq_src.

    Signoff is missing -- the patch can't be applied without it.

> ---
>   drivers/dma/iop-adma.c |    4 ++--
>   1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

> diff --git a/drivers/dma/iop-adma.c b/drivers/dma/iop-adma.c
> index 04be90b..58173ee 100644
> --- a/drivers/dma/iop-adma.c
> +++ b/drivers/dma/iop-adma.c
> @@ -1271,8 +1271,8 @@ iop_adma_pq_zero_sum_self_test(struct iop_adma_device *device)
>   	struct page **pq_hw =&pq[IOP_ADMA_NUM_SRC_TEST+2];
>   	/* address conversion buffers (dma_map / page_address) */
>   	void *pq_sw[IOP_ADMA_NUM_SRC_TEST+2];
> -	dma_addr_t pq_src[IOP_ADMA_NUM_SRC_TEST];
> -	dma_addr_t pq_dest[2];
> +	dma_addr_t pq_src[IOP_ADMA_NUM_SRC_TEST+2];
> +	dma_addr_t *pq_dest =&(pq_src[IOP_ADMA_NUM_SRC_TEST]);

    () not necessary.

WBR, Sergei



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