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Re: [patch RESEND] atp870u: 64 bit bug in atp885_init()

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On Wednesday 09 December 2015 12:53:39 One Thousand Gnomes wrote:
> On Wed, 9 Dec 2015 13:24:53 +0300
> Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com> wrote:
> 
> > On 64 bit CPUs there is a memory corruption bug on probe().  It should
> > be a u32 pointer instead of an unsigned long pointer or we write past
> > the end of the setupdata[] array.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
> > Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.com>
> > ---
> > Resending because we have shuffled the code around so the patch needed
> > to be refreshed against linux-next.  Although I do wonder why we are
> > still working on this code since it has never worked on 64 bit systems
> > so probably all the users gave up a decade ago.
> 
> So this is untested ? If so please make it very clear in the commit
> message because the kernel is IMHO getting too full of polished, neat,
> recently modified, never tested, never used code.
> 
> I agree it would be better if the driver was simply deleted. I've not
> even seen an ATP870 bug report in years.

Maybe because it worked. Although the code was horrible. I've done some big changes to this driver recently (tested, of course).
I can't test this patch as I don't have ATP885 card, only ATP870.

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Ondrej Zary
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[patch RESEND] atp870u: 64 bit bug in atp885_init() Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com> - 2015-12-09 11:30 +0100
  Re: [patch RESEND] atp870u: 64 bit bug in atp885_init() One Thousand Gnomes <gnomes@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> - 2015-12-09 13:00 +0100
    Re: [patch RESEND] atp870u: 64 bit bug in atp885_init() Ondrej Zary <linux@rainbow-software.org> - 2015-12-09 13:10 +0100
    Re: [patch RESEND] atp870u: 64 bit bug in atp885_init() Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com> - 2015-12-09 14:50 +0100
      Re: [patch RESEND] atp870u: 64 bit bug in atp885_init() One Thousand Gnomes <gnomes@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> - 2015-12-09 15:20 +0100
        Re: [patch RESEND] atp870u: 64 bit bug in atp885_init() Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com> - 2015-12-09 18:50 +0100
          Re: [patch RESEND] atp870u: 64 bit bug in atp885_init() Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@lip6.fr> - 2015-12-09 19:20 +0100
            Re: [patch RESEND] atp870u: 64 bit bug in atp885_init() Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com> - 2015-12-09 19:30 +0100
              Re: [patch RESEND] atp870u: 64 bit bug in atp885_init() One Thousand Gnomes <gnomes@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> - 2015-12-09 20:40 +0100

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