Re: [PATCH] ACPI: scan: Fix a Hyper-V Linux VM panic caused by buffer overflow

[Rafael J. Wysocki]

On Sat, Jan 9, 2021 at 6:08 PM Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Saturday, January 9, 2021 10:37:41 AM CET Dexuan Cui wrote:
> > > From: Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@xxxxxxxxx>
> > > Sent: Saturday, January 9, 2021 12:52 AM
> > >>
> > >> Hi Rafael, Len, and all,
> > >> Can you please take a look at the v2 patch?
> > >>
> > >> The Linux mainline has been broken for several weeks when it
> > >> runs as a guest on Hyper-V, so we'd like this to be fixed ASAP,
> > >> as more people are being affected
> > >
> > > I would like to see a warning printed when the dupped
> > > string violates the spec.
> >
> > Hi Andy,
> > Do you want a simple strlen() check like the below, or a full
> > check of the AAA#### or NNNN#### format?
>
> It would be good to check the format too while at it.
>
> > Can we have the v2 (https://lkml.org/lkml/2021/1/8/53) merged
> > first, and then we can add another patch for the format checking?
>
> Yes, we can.
>
> I'm going to apply the v2 early next week.

Applied now with a new subject ("ACPI: scan: Harden acpi_device_add()
against device ID overflows") and slightly adjusted white space,
thanks!