Re: [coreboot] Coreboot bug?

[Peter Stuge]

Myles Watson wrote:
> > It is completely unclear to me why it is safe to write beyond the
> > struct lb_record
>
> lb_record is just the header.  The data follows it, but isn't a
> member of the struct.

Right, but what checks that the data is not colliding with something
else.
> > (maybe it is an elaborate side-effect of the call to
> > lb_new_record()?)
>
> I think lb_new_record uses the size to find the next header
> location. Is that what you meant?

If it gets that far. That would be evaluated for the next record.
What determines how big a new record can be?

//Peter