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Based on a patch from Don Howard <dhoward@redhat.com> When calling write() with a buffer larger than 512 bytes, the driver's write buffer overflows, allowing to overwrite the EIP and execute arbitrary code with kernel privileges. In read(), there exists a similar problem, but coming from the device. A malicous or buggy device sending more than 512 bytes can overflow of the driver's read buffer, with the same effects as above. Signed-off-by: Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org> Signed-off-by: Harald Welte <laforge@gnumonks.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>