Re: [patch] net/sched: potential data corruption

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From: jamal <hadi@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 13 Jul 2010 11:58:14 -0400

> On Tue, 2010-07-13 at 15:21 +0200, Dan Carpenter wrote:
>> The reset_policy() does:
>>         memset(d->tcfd_defdata, 0, SIMP_MAX_DATA);
>>         strlcpy(d->tcfd_defdata, defdata, SIMP_MAX_DATA);
>> 
>> In the original code, the size of d->tcfd_defdata wasn't fixed and if
>> strlen(defdata) was less than 31, reset_policy() would cause memory
>> corruption.
>> 
>> Please Note:  The original alloc_defdata() assumes defdata is 32
>> characters and a NUL terminator while reset_policy() assumes defdata is
>> 31 characters and a NUL.  This patch updates alloc_defdata() to match
>> reset_policy() (ie a shorter string).  I'm not very familiar with this
>> code so please review carefully.
>> 
>> Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <error27@xxxxxxxxx>
> 
> 
> Acked-by: Jamal Hadi Salim <hadi@xxxxxxxxxx>

Applied, thanks.
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