RE: [PATCH] hv: kvp: Avoid reading past allocated blocks from KVP file

[Long Li <longli@microsoft.com>]

> On Tue, Oct 31, 2017 at 06:10:00PM +0000, Long Li wrote:
> > > From: Greg KH [mailto:gregkh@linuxfoundation.org]
> > > Sent: Tuesday, October 31, 2017 1:43 AM
> > > To: Long Li <longli@microsoft.com>
> > > Cc: KY Srinivasan <kys@microsoft.com>; Haiyang Zhang
> > > <haiyangz@microsoft.com>; Stephen Hemminger
> > > <sthemmin@microsoft.com>; devel@linuxdriverproject.org;
> > > linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org; Paul Meyer <Paul.Meyer@microsoft.com>
> > > Subject: Re: [PATCH] hv: kvp: Avoid reading past allocated blocks
> > > from KVP file
> > >
> > > On Mon, Oct 30, 2017 at 05:08:03PM -0700, Long Li wrote:
> > > > From: Paul Meyer <Paul.Meyer@microsoft.com>
> > > >
> > > > While reading in more than one block (50) of KVP records, the
> > > > allocation goes per block, but the reads used the total number of
> > > > allocated records (without resetting the pointer/stream). This
> > > > causes the records buffer to overrun when the refresh reads more
> > > > than one block over the previous capacity (e.g. reading more than
> > > > 100 KVP records
> > > whereas the in-memory database was empty before).
> > >
> > > Please wrap changelogs at 72 columns like your editor asked you to...
> >
> > I will fix it.
> >
> > >
> > > >
> > > > Fix this by reading the correct number of KVP records from file each time.
> > > >
> > > > Signed-off-by: Paul Meyer <Paul.Meyer@microsoft.com>
> > > > ---
> > >
> > > Why is your name not also on the signed-off-by chain if you are
> > > forwarding on a patch from someone else?
> > >
> > > Is this patch also needed on stable kernels?
> >
> > I'm sending on behalf of Paul Meyer. I will add a "Reviewed-by:" tag.
> 
> Sending on behalf means you should add your signed-off-by, as it is going
> through you.

Thanks. I will re-send the patch.

> 
> thanks,
> 
> greg k-h