Re: [PATCH v2] radio-bcm2048.c: fix wrong overflow check

[Pali RohÃr]

On Monday 05 May 2014 15:34:29 Jiri Kosina wrote:
> On Tue, 22 Apr 2014, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> > From: Pali RohÃr <pali.rohar@xxxxxxxxx>
> > 
> > This patch fixes an off by one check in
> > bcm2048_set_region().
> > 
> > Reported-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > Signed-off-by: Pali RohÃr <pali.rohar@xxxxxxxxx>
> > Signed-off-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@xxxxxx>
> > Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> > v2: Send it to the correct list.  Re-work the changelog.
> > 
> > This patch has been floating around for four months but
> > Pavel and Pali are knuckle-heads and don't know how to use
> > get_maintainer.pl so they never send it to linux-media.
> > 
> > Also Pali doesn't give reporter credit and Pavel steals
> > authorship credit.
> > 
> > Also when you try explain to them about how to send patches
> > correctly they complain that they have been trying but it
> > is too much work so now I have to do it.  During the past
> > four months thousands of other people have been able to
> > send patches in the correct format to the correct list but
> > it is too difficult for Pavel and Pali...  *sigh*.
> 
> Seems like it's not in linux-next as of today, so I am taking
> it now. Thanks,

I still do not see this patch in torvalds branch... So what is 
needed to include this security buffer overflow patch into 
mainline & stable kernels?

-- 
Pali RohÃr
pali.rohar@xxxxxxxxx

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