Search Linux Wireless

Re: [patch] cfg80211: off by one in ieee80211_bss()

[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]

 



On Thu, 2013-01-24 at 09:40 +0300, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> We do a:
> 
> 	sprintf(buf, " Last beacon: %ums ago",
> 		elapsed_jiffies_msecs(bss->ts));
> 
> elapsed_jiffies_msecs() can return a 10 digit number so "buf" needs to
> be 31 characters long.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> diff --git a/net/wireless/scan.c b/net/wireless/scan.c
> index 01592d7..45f1618 100644
> --- a/net/wireless/scan.c
> +++ b/net/wireless/scan.c
> @@ -1358,7 +1358,7 @@ ieee80211_bss(struct wiphy *wiphy, struct iw_request_info *info,
>  						  &iwe, IW_EV_UINT_LEN);
>  	}
>  
> -	buf = kmalloc(30, GFP_ATOMIC);
> +	buf = kmalloc(31, GFP_ATOMIC);
>  	if (buf) {
>  		memset(&iwe, 0, sizeof(iwe));
>  		iwe.cmd = IWEVCUSTOM;

Looks good.  Also, to be on the safe side, shouldn't snprintf be used
when writing to buf as well? Same thing higher up where the same buf is
used and alloc'ed 50 bytes...

--
Luca.

--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in
the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html


[Index of Archives]     [Linux Host AP]     [ATH6KL]     [Linux Wireless Personal Area Network]     [Linux Bluetooth]     [Linux Netdev]     [Kernel Newbies]     [Linux Kernel]     [IDE]     [Git]     [Netfilter]     [Bugtraq]     [Yosemite Hiking]     [MIPS Linux]     [ARM Linux]     [Linux RAID]

  Powered by Linux