Re: [PATCH 01/13] ACPI/IPMI: Fix potential response buffer overflow

[Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 04:08:59PM +0800, Lv Zheng wrote:
> This patch enhances sanity checks on message size to avoid potential buffer
> overflow.
> 
> The kernel IPMI message size is IPMI_MAX_MSG_LENGTH(272 bytes) while the
> ACPI specification defined IPMI message size is 64 bytes.  The difference
> is not handled by the original codes.  This may cause crash in the response
> handling codes.
> This patch fixes this gap and also combines rx_data/tx_data to use single
> data/len pair since they need not be seperated.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Lv Zheng <lv.zheng@intel.com>
> Reviewed-by: Huang Ying <ying.huang@intel.com>
> ---
>  drivers/acpi/acpi_ipmi.c |  100 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------------------
>  1 file changed, 61 insertions(+), 39 deletions(-)

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This is not the correct way to submit patches for inclusion in the
stable kernel tree.  Please read Documentation/stable_kernel_rules.txt
for how to do this properly.

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Same goes for the other patches you sent in this thread...