netdev - Re: [PATCH net] packet: packet_getname_spkt: make sure string is always 0-terminated

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Date:	Thu, 13 Jun 2013 01:38:59 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	dborkman@...hat.com
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net] packet: packet_getname_spkt: make sure string is
 always 0-terminated

From: Daniel Borkmann <dborkman@...hat.com>
Date: Wed, 12 Jun 2013 16:02:27 +0200

> uaddr->sa_data is exactly of size 14, which is hard-coded here and
> passed as a size argument to strncpy(). A device name can be of size
> IFNAMSIZ (== 16), meaning we might leave the destination string
> unterminated. Thus, use strlcpy() and also sizeof() while we're
> at it. We need to memset the data area beforehand, since strlcpy
> does not padd the remaining buffer with zeroes for user space, so
> that we do not possibly leak anything.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <dborkman@...hat.com>

Applied, and queued up for -stable, thanks.
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