Re: [patch 1/2] fbcmap: cleanup white space in fb_alloc_cmap()

[Paul Mundt]

On Sat, Nov 13, 2010 at 01:06:38PM +0300, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> checkpatch.pl and Andrew Morton both complained about the indenting in
> fb_alloc_cmap()

On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 12:11:02PM +0300, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> There is an integer overflow in fb_set_user_cmap() because cmap->len * 2
> can wrap.  It's basically harmless.  Your terminal will be messed up
> until you type reset.
> 
> This patch does three things to fix the bug.
> 
> First, it checks the return value of fb_copy_cmap() in fb_alloc_cmap().
> That is enough to fix address the overflow.
> 
> Second it checks for the integer overflow in fb_set_user_cmap().
> 
> Lastly I wanted to cap "cmap->len" in fb_set_user_cmap() much lower
> because it gets used to determine the size of allocation.  Unfortunately
> no one knows what the limit should be.  Instead what this patch does
> is makes the allocation happen with GFP_KERNEL instead of GFP_ATOMIC
> and lets the kmalloc() decide what values of cmap->len are reasonable.
> To do this, the patch introduces a function called fb_alloc_cmap_gfp()
> which is like fb_alloc_cmap() except that it takes a GFP flag.

Both applied, thanks.
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