From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S933128Ab1DMQSb (ORCPT ); Wed, 13 Apr 2011 12:18:31 -0400 Received: from cantor.suse.de ([195.135.220.2]:38416 "EHLO mx1.suse.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932940Ab1DMQSZ (ORCPT ); Wed, 13 Apr 2011 12:18:25 -0400 Date: Wed, 13 Apr 2011 09:17:16 -0700 From: Greg KH To: Patrick McHardy Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@kernel.org, stable-review@kernel.org, torvalds@linux-foundation.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org, alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk, David Sterba Subject: Re: [49/74] netfilter: h323: bug in parsing of ASN1 SEQOF field Message-ID: <20110413161716.GA20829@suse.de> References: <20110413155148.210947709@clark.kroah.org> <4DA5C95B.6000706@trash.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4DA5C95B.6000706@trash.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 06:03:39PM +0200, Patrick McHardy wrote: > Am 13.04.2011 17:51, schrieb Greg KH: > > 2.6.32-longterm review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know. > > > > ------------------ > > > > From: David Sterba > > > > commit b4232a22776aa5d063f890d21ca69870dbbe431b upstream. > > > > Static analyzer of clang found a dead store which appears to be a bug in > > reading count of items in SEQOF field, only the lower byte of word is > > stored. This may lead to corrupted read and communication shutdown. > > > > The bug has been in the module since it's first inclusion into linux > > kernel. > > > > [Patrick: the bug is real, but without practical consequence since the > > largest amount of sequence-of members we parse is 30.] > > As mentioned in the changelog, I don't think this patch is of any > relevance for -stable since its a purely theoretical problem. Ok, thanks, now removed from the queue. greg k-h