Re: [PATCH v2] hexdump: fix for non-aligned buffers

From: Joe Perches
Date: Mon Jun 22 2015 - 00:58:23 EST


On Mon, 2015-06-22 at 01:42 +0200,
=?UTF-8?q?Horacio=20Mijail=20Ant=C3=B3n=20Quiles?= wrote:
> An hexdump with a buf not aligned to the groupsize causes
> non-naturally-aligned memory accesses. This was causing a kernel panic on
> the processor BlackFin BF527, when such an unaligned buffer was fed by the
> function ubifs_scanned_corruption in fs/ubifs/scan.c .
[]
> diff --git a/lib/hexdump.c b/lib/hexdump.c
[]
> @@ -123,6 +123,11 @@ int hex_dump_to_buffer(const void *buf, size_t len, int rowsize, int groupsize,
> groupsize = 1;
> if ((len % groupsize) != 0) /* no mixed size output */
> groupsize = 1;
> +
> + /* fall back to 1-byte groups if buf is not aligned to groupsize*/

Please add a space before the "*/"


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