Re: [stable] [PATCH 1/2] sd: fix memory corruption by sd_read_cache_type

From: Stefan Richter <stefanr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 26 Feb 2006 17:21:29 +0100

James Bottomley wrote:
...

how about this for the actual patch (for 2.6.16) ... I put two
more tidy ups into it ...

...

+#define SD_BUF_SIZE 512

Thanks.
Believe it or not, I was actually about to follow up with something like this. :-)
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References:
- [PATCH 1/2] sd: fix memory corruption by sd_read_cache_type
  - From: Stefan Richter
- Re: [stable] [PATCH 1/2] sd: fix memory corruption by sd_read_cache_type
  - From: Chris Wright
- Re: [stable] [PATCH 1/2] sd: fix memory corruption by sd_read_cache_type
  - From: Stefan Richter
- Re: [stable] [PATCH 1/2] sd: fix memory corruption by sd_read_cache_type
  - From: Linus Torvalds
- Re: [stable] [PATCH 1/2] sd: fix memory corruption by sd_read_cache_type
  - From: James Bottomley
- Re: [stable] [PATCH 1/2] sd: fix memory corruption by sd_read_cache_type
  - From: Al Viro
- Re: [stable] [PATCH 1/2] sd: fix memory corruption by sd_read_cache_type
  - From: James Bottomley

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