I don't have a problem with this patch. It's more "correct" than me hardcoding the size of the buffer which was done when we knew that the dev->name would be trN. Mike Phillips Token-Ring Maintainer. (for my sins) YOSHIFUJI Hideaki / 吉藤英明 <yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org> Sent by: linux-net-owner@vger.kernel.org 07/01/2003 08:06 AM To: mikep@linuxtr.net, davem@redhat.com cc: linux-net@vger.kernel.org, linux-tr@linuxtr.net Subject: [PATCH] [TOKENRING] OLYMPIC: insufficient buffer Hello. This patch fixes insufficient buffer for creating / destroying proc entry and possible overrun. Thanks in advance. Index: linux-2.5/drivers/net/tokenring/olympic.c =================================================================== RCS file: /home/cvs/linux-2.5/drivers/net/tokenring/olympic.c,v retrieving revision 1.23 diff -u -r1.23 olympic.c --- linux-2.5/drivers/net/tokenring/olympic.c 3 Jun 2003 15:56:31 -0000 1.23 +++ linux-2.5/drivers/net/tokenring/olympic.c 1 Jul 2003 10:32:50 -0000 @@ -267,9 +267,9 @@ register_netdev(dev) ; printk("Olympic: %s registered as: %s\n",olympic_priv->olympic_card_name,dev->name); if (olympic_priv->olympic_network_monitor) { /* Must go after register_netdev as we need the device name */ - char proc_name[20] ; + char proc_name[12+IFNAMSIZ+1] ; strcpy(proc_name,"net/olympic_") ; - strcat(proc_name,dev->name) ; + strncat(proc_name,dev->name,IFNAMSIZ) ; create_proc_read_entry(proc_name,0,0,olympic_proc_info,(void *)dev) ; printk("Olympic: Network Monitor information: /proc/%s\n",proc_name); } @@ -1768,9 +1768,9 @@ struct olympic_private *olympic_priv=(struct olympic_private *)dev->priv; if (olympic_priv->olympic_network_monitor) { - char proc_name[20] ; + char proc_name[12+IFNAMSIZ+1] ; strcpy(proc_name,"net/olympic_") ; - strcat(proc_name,dev->name) ; + strncat(proc_name,dev->name,IFNAMSIZ) ; remove_proc_entry(proc_name,NULL); } unregister_netdev(dev) ; -- Hideaki YOSHIFUJI @ USAGI Project <yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org> GPG FP: 9022 65EB 1ECF 3AD1 0BDF 80D8 4807 F894 E062 0EEA - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html