The modpost tool could overflow its stack buffer if someone was running with an insane shell environment. Regardless, it's technically a bug, so this fixes it to truncate the string instead of seg-faulting. Found by Coverity. Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx> --- scripts/mod/sumversion.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/scripts/mod/sumversion.c b/scripts/mod/sumversion.c index 9dfcd6d988da..deb2994b04c4 100644 --- a/scripts/mod/sumversion.c +++ b/scripts/mod/sumversion.c @@ -416,7 +416,7 @@ void get_src_version(const char *modname, char sum[], unsigned sumlen) basename = strrchr(modname, '/') + 1; else basename = modname; - sprintf(filelist, "%s/%.*s.mod", modverdir, + snprintf(filelist, sizeof(filelist), "%s/%.*s.mod", modverdir, (int) strlen(basename) - 2, basename); file = grab_file(filelist, &len); -- 1.7.9.5 -- Kees Cook Chrome OS Security -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kbuild" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
