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

From: Jens Axboe
Date: Mon Mar 06 2017 - 16:56:49 EST


On 03/06/2017 01:18 PM, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Mon, 6 Mar 2017 08:21:11 -0700 Jens Axboe <axboe@xxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> On 03/06/2017 03:23 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().
>>
>> Applied, thanks.
>
> With an added cc:stable, hopefully?

I didn't. But I can email it to stable@ when it lands in Linus's tree.

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Jens Axboe