The patch titled Subject: drivers/rapidio/devices/rio_mport_cdev.c: NUL terminate some strings has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is rapidio-mport_cdev-nul-terminate-some-strings.patch This patch should soon appear at http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmots/broken-out/rapidio-mport_cdev-nul-terminate-some-strings.patch and later at http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/rapidio-mport_cdev-nul-terminate-some-strings.patch Before you just go and hit "reply", please: a) Consider who else should be cc'ed b) Prefer to cc a suitable mailing list as well c) Ideally: find the original patch on the mailing list and do a reply-to-all to that, adding suitable additional cc's *** Remember to use Documentation/process/submit-checklist.rst when testing your code *** The -mm tree is included into linux-next and is updated there every 3-4 working days ------------------------------------------------------ From: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx> Subject: drivers/rapidio/devices/rio_mport_cdev.c: NUL terminate some strings The dev_info.name[] array has space for RIO_MAX_DEVNAME_SZ + 1 characters. But the problem here is that we don't ensure that the user put a NUL terminator on the end of the string. It could lead to an out of bounds read. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190529110601.GB19119@mwanda Fixes: e8de370188d0 ("rapidio: add mport char device driver") Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Alexandre Bounine <alex.bou9@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Ira Weiny <ira.weiny@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/rapidio/devices/rio_mport_cdev.c | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) --- a/drivers/rapidio/devices/rio_mport_cdev.c~rapidio-mport_cdev-nul-terminate-some-strings +++ a/drivers/rapidio/devices/rio_mport_cdev.c @@ -1690,6 +1690,7 @@ static int rio_mport_add_riodev(struct m if (copy_from_user(&dev_info, arg, sizeof(dev_info))) return -EFAULT; + dev_info.name[sizeof(dev_info.name) - 1] = '\0'; rmcd_debug(RDEV, "name:%s ct:0x%x did:0x%x hc:0x%x", dev_info.name, dev_info.comptag, dev_info.destid, dev_info.hopcount); @@ -1821,6 +1822,7 @@ static int rio_mport_del_riodev(struct m if (copy_from_user(&dev_info, arg, sizeof(dev_info))) return -EFAULT; + dev_info.name[sizeof(dev_info.name) - 1] = '\0'; mport = priv->md->mport; _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx are coda-get-rid-of-coda_alloc.patch coda-get-rid-of-coda_free.patch rapidio-mport_cdev-nul-terminate-some-strings.patch