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Re: [PATCH] regulatory: add NULL to alpha2

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On Mon, Jun 23, 2014 at 11:43:06AM +0200, Johannes Berg wrote:
> On Wed, 2014-06-11 at 10:23 +0300, Arik Nemtsov 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.
> 
> I'm beginning to think that it would make more sense to just not use
> nla_put_string()?

If the reason for adding the check was because of a new use case
then yes, but other than that are there other reasons you were
considering?

 Luis
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