[PATCH v2] memory: brcmstb_dpfe: fix array index out of bounds

Florian Fainelli f.fainelli at gmail.com
Sat Aug 22 16:21:47 EDT 2020



On 8/22/2020 1:14 PM, Markus Mayer wrote:
> On Sat, 22 Aug 2020 at 09:46, Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzk at kernel.org> wrote:
>>
>> On Sat, Aug 22, 2020 at 09:40:59AM -0700, Markus Mayer wrote:
>>> On Sat, 22 Aug 2020 at 04:56, Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzk at kernel.org> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> On Fri, Aug 21, 2020 at 09:52:21AM -0700, Markus Mayer wrote:
>>>>> We would overrun the error_text array if we hit a TIMEOUT condition,
>>>>> because we were using the error code "ETIMEDOUT" (which is 110) as an
>>>>> array index.
>>>>>
>>>>> We fix the problem by correcting the array index and by providing a
>>>>> function to retrieve error messages rather than accessing the array
>>>>> directly. The function includes a bounds check that prevents the array
>>>>> from being overrun.
>>>>>
>>>>> This patch was prepared in response to
>>>>>      https://lkml.org/lkml/2020/8/18/505.
>>>>>
>>>>> Signed-off-by: Markus Mayer <mmayer at broadcom.com>
>>>>
>>>> Your Signed-off-by does not match From field. Please run
>>>> scripts/checkpatch on every patch you send.
>>>>
>>>> I fixed it up, assuming markus.mayer at broadcom.com is the valid email
>>>> address.
>>>
>>> No. I have always been using mmayer at broadcom.com since it is shorter.
>>> That's also what's in the MAINTAINERS file. Please change it back. I
>>> accidentally used the long form for one of my e-mail replies which is
>>> where the confusion must have originated.
>>
>> I'll drop the patch then. You need to resend with SoB matching email.
> 
> Oh, I am starting to see what's happening here. This is new and
> apparently due to some changes with the mail server setup on our end.
> 
> I have this in my patch file:
> 
> $ head 0001-memory-brcmstb_dpfe-fix-array-index-out-of-bounds.patch
>  From 6b424772d4c84fa56474b2522d0d3ed6b2b2b360 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Markus Mayer <mmayer at broadcom.com>
> Date: Fri, 21 Aug 2020 08:56:52 -0700
> 
> Sending patches like this used to work. Clearly our SMTP server has
> now taken it upon itself to rewrite the sender e-mail address. I
> wasn't expecting that. Let me look into it. Sorry for the hassle. It
> was not intentional.

Yes, if you used to use the SMTP relay server which did not require 
authentication for internal hosts, and now you use smtp.gmail.com with 
your broadcom.com username, the SMTP server will rewrite the From: to 
match the username used to authenticate with the server.
-- 
Florian



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