linux-kernel - [PATCH] staging: fbtft: Fix buffer overflow vulnerability

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Date:   Wed, 15 Feb 2017 11:42:54 +1100
From:   "Tobin C. Harding" <me@...in.cc>
To:     Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@...e-electrons.com>,
        noralf@...nnes.org
Cc:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        devel@...verdev.osuosl.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        "Tobin C. Harding" <me@...in.cc>
Subject: [PATCH] staging: fbtft: Fix buffer overflow vulnerability

Module copies a user supplied string (module parameter) into a buffer
using strncpy() and does not check that the buffer is null terminated.

Replace call to strncpy() with call to strlcpy() ensuring that the
buffer is null terminated.

Signed-off-by: Tobin C. Harding <me@...in.cc>
---
 drivers/staging/fbtft/fbtft_device.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/staging/fbtft/fbtft_device.c b/drivers/staging/fbtft/fbtft_device.c
index de46f8d..7b7223b 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/fbtft/fbtft_device.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/fbtft/fbtft_device.c
@@ -1483,7 +1483,7 @@ static int __init fbtft_device_init(void)
 			displays[i].pdev->name = name;
 			displays[i].spi = NULL;
 		} else {
-			strncpy(displays[i].spi->modalias, name, SPI_NAME_SIZE);
+			strlcpy(displays[i].spi->modalias, name, SPI_NAME_SIZE);
 			displays[i].pdev = NULL;
 		}
 	}
-- 
2.7.4