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Re: [patch] nvme: lightnvm: buffer overflow in nvme_nvm_identity()

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On 01/26/2016 10:27 AM, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> nvme_nvm_id->ppaf is 4 bytes larger than nvm_id->ppaf.  We're using the
> larger size struct for the sizeof() so we end up corrupting the
> first four bytes of nvm_id->groups[].  It doesn't look like we actually
> want to copy those last bytes anyway.
> 

Thanks, Dan. You are right. The four bytes are overwritten afterwards
and hid the issue.

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[patch] nvme: lightnvm: buffer overflow in nvme_nvm_identity() Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com> - 2016-01-26 10:40 +0100
  Re: [patch] nvme: lightnvm: buffer overflow in nvme_nvm_identity() Matias Bjørling <m@bjorling.me> - 2016-01-26 11:00 +0100

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