Re: [Oops 1/2]Something wrong with copy_from_user() function

From: Greg KH
Date: Sun May 01 2011 - 11:18:13 EST


On Sun, May 01, 2011 at 09:21:30AM +0800, Harry Wei wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 30, 2011 at 11:13:10PM +0200, Jiri Kosina wrote:
> > On Sat, 30 Apr 2011, Harry Wei wrote:
> >
> >
> > wpa_set_keys() function (from staging drivers) in your kernel uses
> > copy_from_user() without proper bounds checking, and thus can overflow and
> > corrupt memory.
> Hmmm, i see.

Patches gladly welcome to fix this :)
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