[ACK] [CVE-2011-1180] irda: validate peer name and attribute lengths

[Stefan Bader]

On 27.07.2011 17:20, Andy Whitcroft wrote:
> CVE-2011-1180
> 	Length fields provided by a peer for names and attributes may
> 	be longer than the destination array sizes.  Validate lengths to
> 	prevent stack buffer overflows.
> 
> The fix for this CVE has hit lucid and later via mainline and stable
> updates.  Following this email is a patch for hardy, lucid/fsl-imx51,
> and maverick/ti-omap4.  This is a simple cherry-pick of the upsteam change.
> 
> Proposing for hardy, lucid/fsl-imx51, and maverick/ti-omap4.
> 
> -apw
> 
Acked-by: Stefan Bader <stefan.bader at canonical.com>