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Date:	Tue, 5 Jan 2016 11:52:47 -0800
From:	Stephen Boyd <sboyd@...eaurora.org>
To:	Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@...aro.org>
Cc:	Rafael Wysocki <rjw@...ysocki.net>, linaro-kernel@...ts.linaro.org,
	linux-pm@...r.kernel.org,
	Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@...ux-m68k.org>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	Len Brown <len.brown@...el.com>,
	open list <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Nishanth Menon <nm@...com>, Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz>,
	Viresh Kumar <vireshk@...nel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] PM / OPP: Use snprintf() instead of sprintf()

On 01/05, Viresh Kumar wrote:
> sprintf() can access memory outside of the range of the character array,
> and is risky in some situations. The driver specified prop_name string
> can be longer than NAME_MAX here (only an attacker will do that though)
> and so blindly copying it into the character array of size NAME_MAX
> isn't safe. Instead we must use snprintf() here.
> 
> Reported-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@...ux-m68k.org>
> Signed-off-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@...aro.org>
> ---

Acked-by: Stephen Boyd <sboyd@...eaurora.org>

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