Re: [patch] ISDN: pcbit: off by one bugs in pcbit_set_msn()

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From: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2014 18:30:11 +0300

> 1) We don't allocate enough space for the NUL terminator so we end up
>    corrupting one character beyond the end of the buffer.
> 
> 2) The "len - 1" should just be "len".  The code is trying to copy a
>    word from a buffer up to a comma or the last word in the buffer.
>    Say you have the buffer, "foo,bar,baz", then this code truncates the
>    last letter off each word so you get "fo", "ba", and "ba".  You would
>    hope this kind of bug would get noticed in testing...
> 
>    I'm not very familiar with this code and I can't test it, but I think
>    we should copy the final character.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx>

Applied to net-next, thanks Dan.
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