Re: Re: [PATCH 00/12] cifs: fix string conversions from wire format to local charset (try #3)

Suresh Jayaraman <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.file-systems.cifs
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Jeff Layton wrote:
> On Wed, 29 Apr 2009 15:44:37 -0500
> Steve French <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>> I don't know whether this should go in stable or not.  It is rather large
>> and would have trouble merging if we went back before 2.6.29 but
>> I don't object given the possible effect of an incorrect conversion
>> overrun.
>>
> 
> I'm leaning against stable for this. It's a pretty big set.
> 
> We had some earlier patches that fixed most, if not all of the places
> where the destination buffer could be overrun. I consider this code
> to mainly be cleanup and to ensure that we don't walk past the end of
> the source buffer.

Did we ensure that all the buffer overrun fixes went in for -stable?
I'll do a check tommorrow, but just asking if someone has already
checked that.


Thanks,

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Suresh Jayaraman
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