Re: [PATCH] zram: set physical queue limits to avoid array out of bounds accesses

From	Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de>
Newsgroups	linux.kernel
Subject	Re: [PATCH] zram: set physical queue limits to avoid array out of bounds accesses
Date	2017-03-06 11:30 +0100
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On 03/06/2017 11:23 AM, Johannes Thumshirn wrote:
> zram can handle at most SECTORS_PER_PAGE sectors in a bio's bvec. When using
> the NVMe over Fabrics loopback target which potentially sends a huge bulk of
> pages attached to the bio's bvec this results in a kernel panic because of
> array out of bounds accesses in zram_decompress_page().
> 
> Signed-off-by: Johannes Thumshirn <jthumshirn@suse.de>
> ---
>  drivers/block/zram/zram_drv.c | 2 ++
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
> 
Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.com>

Cheers,

Hannes
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