Re: [mdiobus_free] BUG: KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds in _copy_from_user+0x5d/0x8f

From: Linus Torvalds
Date: Tue Nov 07 2017 - 11:04:32 EST


On Tue, Nov 7, 2017 at 4:15 AM, Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Sorry please ignore this report -- according to Andrey, old gcc may
> well generate false KASAN reports.

Oh wow, this gcc is even older than the other one that caused slob problems..

>> Linux version 4.14.0-rc8 (kbuild@intel11) (gcc version 4.6.4 (Debian 4.6.4-7))

Yeah, please do upgrade your compilers to something from this decade.

Linus