linux-kernel - [patch] sbshc: acpi_device_class "smbus_host

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Date:	Fri, 19 Mar 2010 14:44:11 +0300
From:	Dan Carpenter <error27@...il.com>
To:	Alexey Starikovskiy <astarikovskiy@...e.de>
Cc:	Len Brown <lenb@...nel.org>, linux-acpi@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [patch] sbshc: acpi_device_class "smbus_host_controller" too long

acpi_device_class can only be 19 characters and a NULL terminator.

With the current name we get a buffer overflow in acpi_smbus_hc_add()
when we do: 
	strcpy(acpi_device_class(device), ACPI_SMB_HC_CLASS);

Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <error27@...il.com>

diff --git a/drivers/acpi/sbshc.c b/drivers/acpi/sbshc.c
index fd09229..1fbf073 100644
--- a/drivers/acpi/sbshc.c
+++ b/drivers/acpi/sbshc.c
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@
 
 #define PREFIX "ACPI: "
 
-#define ACPI_SMB_HC_CLASS	"smbus_host_controller"
+#define ACPI_SMB_HC_CLASS	"smbus_host_ctl"
 #define ACPI_SMB_HC_DEVICE_NAME	"ACPI SMBus HC"
 
 struct acpi_smb_hc {
--
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