Hello Krishna Gudipati, The patch e6826c96ced7: "[SCSI] bfa: Add support to read/update the FRU data." from Sep 21, 2012, leads to the following warning: drivers/scsi/bfa/bfad_bsg.c:114 bfad_iocmd_ioc_get_info() error: buffer overflow 'iocmd->adapter_hwpath' 32 <= 32 diff --git a/drivers/scsi/bfa/bfad_bsg.c b/drivers/scsi/bfa/bfad_bsg.c index 0ab1d40..555e7db 100644 --- a/drivers/scsi/bfa/bfad_bsg.c +++ b/drivers/scsi/bfa/bfad_bsg.c @@ -107,9 +107,10 @@ bfad_iocmd_ioc_get_info(struct bfad_s *bfad, void *cmd) /* set adapter hw path */ strcpy(iocmd->adapter_hwpath, bfad->pci_name); - i = strlen(iocmd->adapter_hwpath) - 1; - while (iocmd->adapter_hwpath[i] != '.') - i--; + for (i = 0; iocmd->adapter_hwpath[i] != ':' && i < BFA_STRING_32; i++) + ; i is 32 here. + for (; iocmd->adapter_hwpath[++i] != ':' && i < BFA_STRING_32; ) + ; i is 33 after the increment. iocmd->adapter_hwpath[i] = '\0'; We are placing a NUL char 2 places past the end of the array. iocmd->status = BFA_STATUS_OK; return 0; regards, dan carpenter -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html