The patch titled
Subject: drivers/media/dvb/dvb-usb/az6007.c: fix incorrect memcpy
has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is
drivers-media-dvb-dvb-usb-az6007c-fix-incorrect-memcpy.patch
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From: Alan Cox <alan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: drivers/media/dvb/dvb-usb/az6007.c: fix incorrect memcpy
Some parts of the C language are subtle and evil. This is one example.
(akpm: sizeof returns sizeof(u8*) here).
Addresses https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=44041
Reported-by: David Binderman <dcb314@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Jose Alberto Reguero <jareguero@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/media/dvb/dvb-usb/az6007.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff -puN drivers/media/dvb/dvb-usb/az6007.c~drivers-media-dvb-dvb-usb-az6007c-fix-incorrect-memcpy drivers/media/dvb/dvb-usb/az6007.c
--- a/drivers/media/dvb/dvb-usb/az6007.c~drivers-media-dvb-dvb-usb-az6007c-fix-incorrect-memcpy
+++ a/drivers/media/dvb/dvb-usb/az6007.c
@@ -590,7 +590,7 @@ static int az6007_read_mac_addr(struct d
int ret;
ret = az6007_read(d, AZ6007_READ_DATA, 6, 0, st->data, 6);
- memcpy(mac, st->data, sizeof(mac));
+ memcpy(mac, st->data, 6);
if (ret > 0)
deb_info("%s: mac is %pM\n", __func__, mac);
_
Subject: Subject: drivers/media/dvb/dvb-usb/az6007.c: fix incorrect memcpy
Patches currently in -mm which might be from alan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx are
origin.patch
linux-next.patch
ppc-e500_tlb-memset-clears-nothing.patch
drivers-media-dvb-dvb-usb-az6007c-fix-incorrect-memcpy.patch
fs-make-dumpable=2-require-fully-qualified-path.patch
coredump-warn-about-unsafe-suid_dumpable-core_pattern-combo.patch
kernel-sysc-avoid-argv_freenull.patch
drivers-message-i2o-i2o_procc-the-pointer-returned-from-chtostr-points-to-an-array-which-is-no-longer-valid.patch
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