This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
parisc: kernel: using strlcpy() instead of strcpy()
to the 3.9-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
parisc-kernel-using-strlcpy-instead-of-strcpy.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.9 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From ea99b1adf22abd62bdcf14b1c9a0a4d3664eefd8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Chen Gang <gang.chen@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 30 May 2013 01:18:43 +0000
Subject: parisc: kernel: using strlcpy() instead of strcpy()
From: Chen Gang <gang.chen@xxxxxxxxxxx>
commit ea99b1adf22abd62bdcf14b1c9a0a4d3664eefd8 upstream.
'boot_args' is an input args, and 'boot_command_line' has a fix length.
So use strlcpy() instead of strcpy() to avoid memory overflow.
Signed-off-by: Chen Gang <gang.chen@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Kyle McMartin <kyle@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Helge Deller <deller@xxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
arch/parisc/kernel/setup.c | 3 ++-
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
--- a/arch/parisc/kernel/setup.c
+++ b/arch/parisc/kernel/setup.c
@@ -69,7 +69,8 @@ void __init setup_cmdline(char **cmdline
/* called from hpux boot loader */
boot_command_line[0] = '\0';
} else {
- strcpy(boot_command_line, (char *)__va(boot_args[1]));
+ strlcpy(boot_command_line, (char *)__va(boot_args[1]),
+ COMMAND_LINE_SIZE);
#ifdef CONFIG_BLK_DEV_INITRD
if (boot_args[2] != 0) /* did palo pass us a ramdisk? */
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from gang.chen@xxxxxxxxxxx are
queue-3.9/parisc-kernel-using-strlcpy-instead-of-strcpy.patch
queue-3.9/parisc-memory-overflow-name-length-is-too-short-for-using.patch
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