linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] staging: fbtft: fix out of bound access

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Date:	Thu, 4 Jun 2015 18:17:18 +0530
From:	Sudip Mukherjee <sudipm.mukherjee@...il.com>
To:	Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>
Cc:	Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@...e-electrons.com>,
	Noralf Trønnes <noralf@...nnes.org>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	devel@...verdev.osuosl.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] staging: fbtft: fix out of bound access

On Thu, Jun 04, 2015 at 03:36:31PM +0300, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 04, 2015 at 05:12:01PM +0530, Sudip Mukherjee wrote:
> > size of str is 16, but in snprintf the size was mentioned as 128.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Sudip Mukherjee <sudip@...torindia.org>
> > ---
<snip>
> Good eye.  How did you find this?
:) not me. cppcheck. 
> 
> The good news is buf[j] is <= 0xFFFF so it won't actually overflow.  Who
> knows why it is zero padded 2 spaces...  But use sizeof(str) instead of
> 16.
but my v2 will remove the use of msg and str.

regards
sudip
> 
> regards,
> dan carpenter
> 
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