The patch below does not apply to the 3.10-stable tree. If someone wants it applied there, or to any other stable or longterm tree, then please email the backport, including the original git commit id to <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>. thanks, greg k-h ------------------ original commit in Linus's tree ------------------ >From cfda2794b5afe7ce64ee9605c64bef0e56a48125 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Alexander Usyskin <alexander.usyskin@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Mon, 25 Aug 2014 16:46:53 +0300 Subject: [PATCH] mei: bus: fix possible boundaries violation function 'strncpy' will fill whole buffer 'id.name' of fixed size (32) with string value and will not leave place for NULL-terminator. Possible buffer boundaries violation in following string operations. Replace strncpy with strlcpy. Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx # 3.10+ Signed-off-by: Alexander Usyskin <alexander.usyskin@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Tomas Winkler <tomas.winkler@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/drivers/misc/mei/bus.c b/drivers/misc/mei/bus.c index 09dad2df7aae..1cf3a72f2954 100644 --- a/drivers/misc/mei/bus.c +++ b/drivers/misc/mei/bus.c @@ -70,7 +70,7 @@ static int mei_cl_device_probe(struct device *dev) dev_dbg(dev, "Device probe\n"); - strncpy(id.name, dev_name(dev), sizeof(id.name)); + strlcpy(id.name, dev_name(dev), sizeof(id.name)); return driver->probe(device, &id); } -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html