From: Colin Ian King <colin.king@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> The allocation of dname is short by 1 byte, so increase the allocation size. Detected with CoverityScan, CID#711628 ("Out-of-bounds-access (OVERRUN)") Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- usr/gen_init_cpio.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/usr/gen_init_cpio.c b/usr/gen_init_cpio.c index 225ad244cf88..981682f4faea 100644 --- a/usr/gen_init_cpio.c +++ b/usr/gen_init_cpio.c @@ -418,7 +418,7 @@ static int cpio_mkfile_line(const char *line) int len; int nend; - dname = malloc(strlen(line)); + dname = malloc(strlen(line) + 1); if (!dname) { fprintf (stderr, "out of memory (%d)\n", dname_len); goto fail; -- 2.11.0 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kernel-janitors" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html