Re: [PATCH] sysfs/bin: Fix size handling overflow for bin_attribute

[Greg KH]

On Thu, Oct 10, 2013 at 10:38:47AM -0700, Greg KH wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 10, 2013 at 06:03:55PM +1100, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> > While looking at the code, I noticed that bin_attribute read() and write()
> > ops copy the inode size into an int for futher comparisons.
> > 
> > Some bin_attributes can be fairly large. For example, pci creates some for
> > BARs set to the BAR size and giant BARs are around the corner, so this is
> > going to break something somewhere eventually.
> > 
> > Let's use the right type.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> This file (fs/sysfs/bin.c) is no longer in linux-next as Tejun merged it
> with the other file handling code in sysfs, to remove a bunch of
> duplicated logic.
> 
> So, could you look at linux-next and see if this is still an issue there
> or not?

Ah, nevermind, I just looked, and it still is an issue there, I'll
hand-edit the patch to apply properly, thanks.

greg k-h
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