linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH, v2] isdn: Fix stack corruption in isdnloop

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Date:	Wed, 2 Sep 2009 15:34:12 +0200
From:	Karsten Keil <isdn@...ux-pingi.de>
To:	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...radead.org>
Cc:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	isdn4linux@...tserv.isdn4linux.de,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>, tj@...e.hu
Subject: Re: [PATCH, v2] isdn: Fix stack corruption in isdnloop_init()

On Mittwoch, 2. September 2009 15:14:39 Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> On Wed, 2 Sep 2009 15:03:36 +0200
>
> Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu> wrote:
> > [ v2: use strlen instead of sizeof. ]
> >
> > diff --git a/drivers/isdn/isdnloop/isdnloop.c
> > b/drivers/isdn/isdnloop/isdnloop.c index a335c85..0c8d8cb 100644
> > --- a/drivers/isdn/isdnloop/isdnloop.c
> > +++ b/drivers/isdn/isdnloop/isdnloop.c
> > @@ -1494,7 +1494,7 @@ static int __init
> >  isdnloop_init(void)
> >  {
> >  	char *p;
> > -	char rev[10];
> > +	char rev[strlen(revision)+1];
> >
> >  	if ((p = strchr(revision, ':'))) {
> >  		strcpy(rev, p + 1);
>
> now it;s a runtime variable sized array.
> NotNice(tm)

I will remove that crap revision printing code and replace it with some
easy printable version which do not need parsing this CVS revision string 
again, since we do not use CVS anymore.

Karsten

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