linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] Do not potentially overflow string in sumversion

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Date:	Fri, 21 Jan 2011 06:18:35 +0000 (UTC)
From:	WANG Cong <xiyou.wangcong@...il.com>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Do not potentially overflow string in sumversion

On Fri, 21 Jan 2011 00:00:56 +0100, Jesper Juhl wrote:

> In scripts/mod/sumversion.c (in get_src_version()) we call
> getenv("MODVERDIR"). This returns a pointer to a string of unknown
> length. This string of unknown length we then pass on as an argument to
> sprintf() and tell it to write the result to 'filelist' which has a,
> very much fixed, size of 'PATH_MAX + 1'. If the string returned by
> getenv() is too long we'll overrun the statically allocated buffer. This
> patch prevents the buffer overrun by using snprintf() and telling it to
> copy a maximum of 'PATH_MAX + 1' bytes (including the terminating \0).
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jj@...osbits.net> ---

Acked-by: WANG Cong <xiyou.wangcong@...il.com>

Next time, please Cc linux-kbuild for kbuild changes.

Regards.


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