From: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
To: ocfs2-devel@oss.oracle.com
Subject: [Ocfs2-devel] [patch] ocfs2: fix recent memory corruption bug
Date: Thu, 1 Aug 2013 16:58:30 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130801135830.GA5102@mwanda> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130801135526.GA17153@elgon.mountain>
On Thu, Aug 01, 2013 at 04:55:26PM +0300, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> The pointer math in 6fdf3af1d2 "ocfs2: fix null pointer dereference in
> ocfs2_dir_foreach_blk_id()" isn't correct so it will zero out the wrong
> memory.
>
I sent this patch prematurely... Really the memset is not needed
because the values are already initialized to zero. Let me send a
v2 patch that removes the memset.
Sorry, I just wanted to fix this right away because of the memory
corruption.
regards,
dan carpenter
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-08-01 13:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-08-01 13:55 [Ocfs2-devel] [patch] ocfs2: fix recent memory corruption bug Dan Carpenter
2013-08-01 13:58 ` Dan Carpenter [this message]
2013-08-01 14:02 ` [Ocfs2-devel] [patch v2] " Dan Carpenter
2013-08-01 14:11 ` Jeff Liu
2013-08-01 15:36 ` [Ocfs2-devel] [patch v3] ocfs2: " Dan Carpenter
2013-08-02 1:39 ` Jeff Liu
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