loff_t is a signed type. If userspace passes a negative ppos, the "count"
range check is weakened. "count"s bigger than HPEE_MAX_LENGTH will pass the check.
Also, if ppos is negative, the readb(eisa_eeprom_addr + *ppos) will poke in random
memory.
Signed-off-by: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de>
Many struct file_operations in the kernel can be "const". Marking them const
moves these to the .rodata section, which avoids false sharing with potential
dirty data. In addition it'll catch accidental writes at compile time to
these shared resources.
Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history,
even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git
archive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it's about
3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early
git days unnecessarily complicated, when we don't have a lot of good
infrastructure for it.
Let it rip!
Michael Buesch