[U-Boot] [PATCH v2] bootm: Avoid 256-byte overflow in fixup_silent_linux()

[Mike Frysinger]

On Tuesday 10 January 2012 17:51:15 Doug Anderson wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 10, 2012 at 2:28 PM, Wolfgang Denk wrote:
> > I think your patch is likely to break all these architectures?
> 
> I'm not sure how my patch would break these architectures.

if the kernel doesn't do len checking on the input string and only looks for 
trailing NUL byte, you could trigger a buffer overflow in the kernel.  
personally, i'd say that's poor behavior on the part of the kernel, but we 
should still be nice if possible ...
-mike
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