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Date:      Mon, 14 Feb 2011 10:47:17 -0800
From:      mdf@FreeBSD.org
To:        John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org>
Cc:        svn-src-head@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, src-committers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r218685 - head/sys/dev/acpica
Message-ID:  <AANLkTi=ig=6vocB9=mYSg4ChG-wF9j0tmQUOW4hRMbQk@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <201102141333.05054.jhb@freebsd.org>
References:  <201102141720.p1EHKKeU000451@svn.freebsd.org> <201102141333.05054.jhb@freebsd.org>

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On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 10:33 AM, John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org> wrote:
> On Monday, February 14, 2011 12:20:20 pm Matthew D Fleming wrote:
>> Author: mdf
>> Date: Mon Feb 14 17:20:20 2011
>> New Revision: 218685
>> URL: http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/base/218685
>>
>> Log:
>>   Prevent reading from the ACPI_RESOURCE past its actual end.  For
>>   paranoia limit to the size of the ACPI_RESOURCE as well.
>
> I think in practice that len would never be > sizeof(ACPI_RESOURCE).
>
> You could probably get by with using a KASSERT() instead:
>
>        KASSERT(res->Length <= sizeof(ACPI_RESOURCE), "resource too large"));
>        bcopy(res, req->acpi_res, res->Length);

Thanks.  I wanted to be paranoid since the problem was sporadic.

Anyone who can better test this code should feel free to modify it further.

Thanks,
matthew


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