[alsa-devel] [PATCH] ASoC: soc-cache: Fix memory overflow in LZO initialization

Mark Brown broonie at opensource.wolfsonmicro.com
Tue Nov 30 13:54:59 CET 2010


On Mon, Nov 29, 2010 at 11:43:33AM +0000, Dimitris Papastamos wrote:
> The bitmap_zero() nbits argument was improperly set to reg_size
> but the underlying buffer was bmp_size long.  This caused the memset
> to zero past the end of the allocated buffer and into the kernel heap
> causing strange kernel crashes sometimes by overwriting critical
> kernel structures.

Applied, thanks.


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