netdev - Re: [PATCH] bonding: fix a buffer overflow in bonding_show_queue

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Date:	Wed, 14 Jul 2010 18:25:05 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	nicolas.2p.debian@...e.fr
Cc:	bonding-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net, andy@...yhouse.net,
	fubar@...ibm.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] bonding: fix a buffer overflow in
 bonding_show_queue_id.

From: Nicolas de Pesloüan <nicolas.2p.debian@...e.fr>
Date: Thu, 15 Jul 2010 00:24:37 +0200

> The test for buffer overflow ensures we have room for 6 more bytes.
> sprintf, called with %s:%d, slave->dev->name, slave->queue_id may yield
> far more than 6 bytes.
> 
> The correct test is res > (PAGE_SIZE - IFNAMSIZ - 6) .
> 
> Signed-off-by: Nicolas de Pesloüan <nicolas.2p.debian@...e.fr>

Applied to net-next-2.6, thanks.
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