From: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
To: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>,
Sergey Senozhatsky <senozhatsky@chromium.org>,
Rasmus Villemoes <linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk>,
Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>,
Sakari Ailus <sakari.ailus@linux.intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v1 1/1] vsprintf: Fix potential unaligned access
Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2022 15:57:36 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Yd2a4MApVR8hexny@alley> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20220110205049.11696-1-andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>
On Mon 2022-01-10 22:50:49, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> The %p4cc specifier in some cases might get an unaligned pointer.
> Due to this we need to make copy to local variable once to avoid
> potential crashes on some architectures due to improper access.
>
> Fixes: af612e43de6d ("lib/vsprintf: Add support for printing V4L2 and DRM fourccs")
> Cc: Sakari Ailus <sakari.ailus@linux.intel.com>
> Signed-off-by: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>
Looks good to me:
Reviewed-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
I have already sent pull request for 5.17. Could this wait
for 5.18 or would you prefer to get it into 5.17, please?
My understanding of Sakari's reply is that the current callers
provide aligned pointers. In that case it would not be urgent.
But I might have gotten it wrong.
Best Regards,
Petr
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-01-11 14:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-01-10 20:50 Andy Shevchenko
2022-01-10 22:12 ` Sakari Ailus
2022-01-11 10:10 ` Andy Shevchenko
2022-01-11 10:54 ` Sakari Ailus
2022-01-11 11:22 ` Andy Shevchenko
2022-01-11 14:13 ` Sakari Ailus
2022-01-11 14:18 ` Andy Shevchenko
2022-01-11 14:57 ` Petr Mladek [this message]
2022-01-11 15:09 ` Andy Shevchenko
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