On 03/01/2015 07:48 PM, Colin King wrote:
From: Colin Ian King <colin.king@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> cppcheck detected a buffer overflow: [drivers/net/wireless/ath/wil6210/debugfs.c:634]: (error) Width 8 given in format string (no. 1) is larger than destination buffer 'cmd[8]', use %7s to prevent overflowing it. For the current %8s sscanf we require cmd to be 9 chars long so increase it by 1 byte to prevent the sscan overflow (rather than reduce the %8s specifier to %7s as cppcheck recommends). Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/net/wireless/ath/wil6210/debugfs.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/wil6210/debugfs.c b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/wil6210/debugfs.c index 45c3558e..29aab12 100644 --- a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/wil6210/debugfs.c +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/wil6210/debugfs.c @@ -618,7 +618,7 @@ static ssize_t wil_write_back(struct file *file, const char __user *buf, struct wil6210_priv *wil = file->private_data; int rc; char *kbuf = kmalloc(len + 1, GFP_KERNEL); - char cmd[8]; + char cmd[9]; int p1, p2, p3; if (!kbuf)
Thanks for finding this. Here is my Acked-by: Vladimir Kondratiev <qca_vkondrat@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Thanks, Vladimir -- 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
