linux-kernel - [PATCH] fs - fix name overwrite in __register_chrdev

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Date:	Sun, 14 Dec 2008 00:49:11 +0300
From:	Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@...il.com>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Alexander Viro <aviro@...hat.com>
Cc:	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: [PATCH] fs - fix name overwrite in __register_chrdev_region

It's possible to register chdev with a name size
exactly the same as was allocated in structure.
It seems it was not intedned behaviour.

At least chrdev_show does not like it.

Signed-off-by: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@...il.com>
---

 fs/char_dev.c |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

Index: linux-2.6.git/fs/char_dev.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.git.orig/fs/char_dev.c
+++ linux-2.6.git/fs/char_dev.c
@@ -120,7 +120,7 @@ __register_chrdev_region(unsigned int ma
 	cd->major = major;
 	cd->baseminor = baseminor;
 	cd->minorct = minorct;
-	strncpy(cd->name,name, 64);
+	strncpy(cd->name, name, sizeof(cd->name) - 1);
 
 	i = major_to_index(major);
 
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