From: Dan Carpenter Date: Tue, 02 Mar 2010 08:21:35 +0000 Subject: bug report: sd: off by one in sd_read_block_limits() Message-Id: <20100302082135.GA6218@bicker> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: "Martin K. Petersen" Cc: "James E.J. Bottomley" , linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org drivers/scsi/sd.c +1986 sd_read_block_limits(39) warn: buffer overflow 'buffer' 32 <= 32 1951 const int vpd_len = 32; 1952 unsigned char *buffer = kmalloc(vpd_len, GFP_KERNEL); [snip] 1984 if (buffer[32] & 0x80) This is past the end of the array. 1985 q->limits.discard_alignment 1986 get_unaligned_be32(&buffer[32]) & ~(1 << 31); 1987 } regards, dan carpenter