Re: [patch] ALSA: oss-mixer - use strlcpy() instead strcpy()

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At Tue, 4 Oct 2011 09:29:39 +0300,
Dan Carpenter wrote:
> 
> This is mostly a static checker fix more than anything else.  We're
> copying from a 64 char buffer into a 44 char buffer.
> 
> The 64 character buffer is str[] in snd_mixer_oss_build_test_all().
> The call tree is:
> 	snd_mixer_oss_build_test_all()
> 	-> snd_mixer_oss_build_test()
> 	   -> snd_mixer_oss_build_test().
> 
> We never actually do fill str[] buffer all the way to 64 characters.
> The longest string is:
> 	sprintf(str, "%s Playback Switch", ptr->name);
> ptr->name is a 32 character buffer so 32 plus 16 characters for
> " Playback Switch" still puts us over the 44 limit from "id.name".
> 
> Most likely ptr->name never gets filled to the limit, but we can't
> really change the size of that buffer so lets just use strlcpy() here
> and be safe.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx>

Applied now.  Thanks.


Takashi


> diff --git a/sound/core/oss/mixer_oss.c b/sound/core/oss/mixer_oss.c
> index 27ac611..18297f7 100644
> --- a/sound/core/oss/mixer_oss.c
> +++ b/sound/core/oss/mixer_oss.c
> @@ -500,7 +500,7 @@ static struct snd_kcontrol *snd_mixer_oss_test_id(struct snd_mixer_oss *mixer, c
>  	
>  	memset(&id, 0, sizeof(id));
>  	id.iface = SNDRV_CTL_ELEM_IFACE_MIXER;
> -	strcpy(id.name, name);
> +	strlcpy(id.name, name, sizeof(id.name));
>  	id.index = index;
>  	return snd_ctl_find_id(card, &id);
>  }
> 
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