netdev - [patch 1/1] drivers/net/irda/irda-usb.c: fix buffer overflow

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Date:	Tue, 13 Jan 2009 13:30:54 -0800
From:	akpm@...ux-foundation.org
To:	davem@...emloft.net
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, akpm@...ux-foundation.org,
	josevteg@...il.com, linville@...driver.com, samuel@...tiz.org,
	stable@...nel.org
Subject: [patch 1/1] drivers/net/irda/irda-usb.c: fix buffer overflow

From: Jos-Vicente Gilabert <josevteg@...il.com>

Taken from http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12397

We're doing an sprintf of an 11-char string into an 11-char buffer. 
Whoops.  It breaks firmware uploading.

Reported-by: Jos-Vicente Gilabert <josevteg@...il.com>
Cc: David S. Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc: Samuel Ortiz <samuel@...tiz.org>
Cc: "John W. Linville" <linville@...driver.com>
Cc: <stable@...nel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
---

 drivers/net/irda/irda-usb.c |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff -puN drivers/net/irda/irda-usb.c~drivers-net-irda-irda-usbc-fix-buffer-overflow drivers/net/irda/irda-usb.c
--- a/drivers/net/irda/irda-usb.c~drivers-net-irda-irda-usbc-fix-buffer-overflow
+++ a/drivers/net/irda/irda-usb.c
@@ -1073,7 +1073,7 @@ static int stir421x_patch_device(struct 
 {
 	unsigned int i;
 	int ret;
-	char stir421x_fw_name[11];
+	char stir421x_fw_name[12];
 	const struct firmware *fw;
 	const unsigned char *fw_version_ptr; /* pointer to version string */
 	unsigned long fw_version = 0;
_
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