linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] wifi: ath12k: Fix buffer overflow in debugfs

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Message-ID: <23e31f9f-4465-45c1-8919-c5d43034d33e@oss.qualcomm.com>
Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2025 15:16:53 -0700
From: Jeff Johnson <jeff.johnson@....qualcomm.com>
To: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...aro.org>,
        Dinesh Karthikeyan <quic_dinek@...cinc.com>
Cc: Jeff Johnson <jjohnson@...nel.org>, Kalle Valo <kvalo@...nel.org>,
        Ramya Gnanasekar <quic_rgnanase@...cinc.com>,
        linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org, ath12k@...ts.infradead.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] wifi: ath12k: Fix buffer overflow in debugfs

On 4/9/2025 4:01 AM, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> If the user tries to write more than 32 bytes then it results in memory
> corruption.  Fortunately, this is debugfs so it's limitted to root users.

I've fixed this in the 'pending' branch:
WARNING:TYPO_SPELLING: 'limitted' may be misspelled - perhaps 'limited'?

https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ath/ath.git/commit/?h=pending&id=b49ee0380e07efa34bdc4b012df22842b7fe2825

/jeff