Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] apei/ghes: don't go past allocated memory

[Borislav Petkov]

On Wed, Nov 26, 2025 at 04:05:46PM +0100, Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote:
> If the BIOS generates a very small ARM Processor Error, or
> an incomplete one, the current logic will fail to deferrence
> 
> 	err->section_length
> and
> 	ctx_info->size
> 
> Add checks to avoid that. With such changes, those GHESv2
> records won't cause OOPSes:
> 
>     GUID: e19e3d16-bc11-11e4-9caa-c2051d5d46b0
>     CPER:
>       00000000  23 da a0 ce 9a 1b 92 d7 08 2b 32 08 7b 56 1b 23   #........+2.{V.#

Surely you can summarize this gibberish instead of putting it in the commit
message.

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    Boris.

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