linux-kernel - [patch] power_meter: acpi_device_class "power_meter

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Message-ID: <20100319114920.GP5331@bicker>
Date:	Fri, 19 Mar 2010 14:49:20 +0300
From:	Dan Carpenter <error27@...il.com>
To:	Len Brown <lenb@...nel.org>
Cc:	"Darrick J. Wong" <djwong@...ibm.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Márton Németh <nm127@...email.hu>,
	Lin Ming <ming.m.lin@...el.com>, linux-acpi@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [patch] power_meter: acpi_device_class "power_meter_resource" too
	long

acpi_device_class can only be 19 characters and a NULL terminator.

The current code has a buffer overflow in acpi_power_meter_add():
       strcpy(acpi_device_class(device), ACPI_POWER_METER_CLASS);

Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <error27@...il.com>
---
Feel free to change the name to anything you like.

diff --git a/drivers/acpi/power_meter.c b/drivers/acpi/power_meter.c
index 834c5af..31baa1e 100644
--- a/drivers/acpi/power_meter.c
+++ b/drivers/acpi/power_meter.c
@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@
 #define ACPI_POWER_METER_NAME		"power_meter"
 ACPI_MODULE_NAME(ACPI_POWER_METER_NAME);
 #define ACPI_POWER_METER_DEVICE_NAME	"Power Meter"
-#define ACPI_POWER_METER_CLASS		"power_meter_resource"
+#define ACPI_POWER_METER_CLASS		"pwr_meter_resource"
 
 #define NUM_SENSORS			17
 
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