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Re: [PATCH] Wireless: Make cfg80211_dev_rename() check sscanf return value in net/wireless/core.c

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On Sat, 2010-03-20 at 12:53 +0800, wzt.wzt@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
> Make cfg80211_dev_rename() check sscanf return value.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Zhitong Wang <zhitong.wangzt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> ---
>  net/wireless/core.c |    4 +++-
>  1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/net/wireless/core.c b/net/wireless/core.c
> index 80afacd..8e815b4 100644
> --- a/net/wireless/core.c
> +++ b/net/wireless/core.c
> @@ -146,7 +146,9 @@ int cfg80211_dev_rename(struct cfg80211_registered_device *rdev,
>  	int idx, taken = -1, result, digits;
>  
>  	/* prohibit calling the thing phy%d when %d is not its number */
> -	sscanf(newname, PHY_NAME "%d%n", &idx, &taken);
> +	if (sscanf(newname, PHY_NAME "%d%n", &idx, &taken) != 2)
> +		return -EINVAL;
> +

Umm, no, your patch breaks it completely. Look at the logic again.

johannes

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