We allocate "len" number of chars so we should put the NUL at "len - 1"
to avoid corrupting memory. Btw, strlen_user() is different from the
normal strlen() function because it includes NUL terminator in the
count.
Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx>
diff --git a/arch/parisc/hpux/sys_hpux.c b/arch/parisc/hpux/sys_hpux.c
index d9dc6cd..e5c4da0 100644
--- a/arch/parisc/hpux/sys_hpux.c
+++ b/arch/parisc/hpux/sys_hpux.c
@@ -456,7 +456,7 @@ int hpux_sysfs(int opcode, unsigned long arg1, unsigned long arg2)
}
/* String could be altered by userspace after strlen_user() */
- fsname[len] = '\0';
+ fsname[len - 1] = '\0';
printk(KERN_DEBUG "that is '%s' as (char *)\n", fsname);
if ( !strcmp(fsname, "hfs") ) {
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