linux-kernel - [char-misc-next 3/3] mei: bus: do not overflow the device name buffer

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Date:	Wed, 24 Jul 2013 16:22:59 +0300
From:	Tomas Winkler <tomas.winkler@...el.com>
To:	gregkh@...uxfoundation.org
Cc:	arnd@...db.de, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Tomas Winkler <tomas.winkler@...el.com>
Subject: [char-misc-next 3/3] mei: bus: do not overflow the device name buffer

1. use strncmp for comparsion strncpy was used for copying
which may omit the final %NUL terminator
2. id->name is statically defined so we can use sizeof

Acked-by: Samuel Ortiz <sameo@...ux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Tomas Winkler <tomas.winkler@...el.com>
---
 drivers/misc/mei/bus.c | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/misc/mei/bus.c b/drivers/misc/mei/bus.c
index 9ecd49a..a150a42 100644
--- a/drivers/misc/mei/bus.c
+++ b/drivers/misc/mei/bus.c
@@ -47,7 +47,7 @@ static int mei_cl_device_match(struct device *dev, struct device_driver *drv)
 	id = driver->id_table;
 
 	while (id->name[0]) {
-		if (!strcmp(dev_name(dev), id->name))
+		if (!strncmp(dev_name(dev), id->name, sizeof(id->name)))
 			return 1;
 
 		id++;
@@ -71,7 +71,7 @@ static int mei_cl_device_probe(struct device *dev)
 
 	dev_dbg(dev, "Device probe\n");
 
-	strncpy(id.name, dev_name(dev), MEI_CL_NAME_SIZE);
+	strncpy(id.name, dev_name(dev), sizeof(id.name));
 
 	return driver->probe(device, &id);
 }
-- 
1.8.1.2

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