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Re: [PATCH] regulatory: add NULL to alpha2

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On Wed, Jun 11, 2014 at 12:23 AM, Arik Nemtsov <arik@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> From: Eliad Peller <eliad@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> alpha2 is defined as 2-chars array, but is used in multiple
> places as string (e.g. with nla_put_string calls), which
> might leak kernel data.
>
> Solve it by simply adding an extra char for the NULL
> terminator, making such operations safe.
>
> Signed-off-by: Eliad Peller <eliadx.peller@xxxxxxxxx>
> Reviewed-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@xxxxxxxxx>

Acked-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <mcgrof@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Thanks for the patch ! Curious how you ended up down finding the issue though.

  Luis
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