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Re: [PATCH] wireless: airo: potential buffer overflow in sprintf()

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Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> It looks like we wanted to print a maximum of BSSList_rid.ssidLen bytes
> of the ssid, but we accidentally use "%*s" (width) instead of "%.*s"
> (precision) so if the ssid doesn't have a NUL terminator this could lead
> to an overflow.
>
> Fixes: e174961ca1a0 ("net: convert print_mac to %pM")
> Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> Static analsysis.  Not tested.

IMHO this part (after "---" line) is important information and should be
part of commit log. I can fix that.

I'll also remove "wireless:" from the title.

-- 
Kalle Valo



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