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SubjectRe: [PATCH 0/3] HID: debug: fix the ring buffer implementation
On Wed, 3 Oct 2018, Vladis Dronov wrote:

> This patchset is fixing some aspects of the ring buffer implementation in
> drivers/hid/hid-debug.c. This implementation has certain problem points:
>
> - it may stuck in an infinite loop
> - it may return corrupted data
> - a reader and a writer are not protected by spinlocks, which can lead to
> the corrupted data
>
> The suggested patchset is a new ring buffer implementation which overwrites
> the oldest data in case of an overflow. One can verify the suggested ring
> buffer implementation by fuzzing it with modified kernel and fuzzer-reader
> at: https://gist.github.com/nefigtut/33d56e3870b67493cc867344aed2a062

Vladis,

thanks for cleaning it up. I actually like your rewrite quite a lot.

Quick question -- how well was it tested in which scenarios?

--
Jiri Kosina
SUSE Labs

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