Re: [PATCH 2/2] ARM: zynq: Use memcpy_toio instead of memcpy on smp bring-up

From: Greg KH
Date: Tue Aug 06 2019 - 01:17:22 EST


On Mon, Aug 05, 2019 at 11:07:18PM -0400, Luis Araneda wrote:
> This fixes a kernel panic (read overflow) on memcpy when
> FORTIFY_SOURCE is enabled.
>
> The computed size of memcpy args are:
> - p_size (dst): 4294967295 = (size_t) -1
> - q_size (src): 1
> - size (len): 8
>
> Additionally, the memory is marked as __iomem, so one of
> the memcpy_* functions should be used for read/write
>
> Signed-off-by: Luis Araneda <luaraneda@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> arch/arm/mach-zynq/platsmp.c | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

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This is not the correct way to submit patches for inclusion in the
stable kernel tree. Please read:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/process/stable-kernel-rules.html
for how to do this properly.

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