netdev - [PATCH] brcmsmac: don't leak kernel memory via printk()

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Date:	Wed, 10 Dec 2014 01:39:18 -0800
From:	Brian Norris <computersforpeace@...il.com>
To:	"John W. Linville" <linville@...driver.com>
Cc:	Brian Norris <computersforpeace@...il.com>,
	Brett Rudley <brudley@...adcom.com>,
	Arend van Spriel <arend@...adcom.com>,
	"Franky (Zhenhui) Lin" <frankyl@...adcom.com>,
	Hante Meuleman <meuleman@...adcom.com>,
	linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org, brcm80211-dev-list@...adcom.com,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] brcmsmac: don't leak kernel memory via printk()

Debug code prints the fifo name via custom dev_warn() wrappers. The
fifo_names array is only non-zero when debugging is manually enabled,
which is all well and good. However, it's *not* good that this array
uses zero-length arrays in the non-debug case, and so it doesn't
actually have any memory allocated to it. This means that as far as we
know, fifo_names[i] actually points to garbage memory.

I've seen this in my log:

[ 4601.205511] brcmsmac bcma0:1: wl0: brcms_c_d11hdrs_mac80211: �GeL txop exceeded phylen 137/256 dur 1602/1504

So let's give this array space enough to fill it with a NULL byte.

Signed-off-by: Brian Norris <computersforpeace@...il.com>
Cc: Brett Rudley <brudley@...adcom.com>
Cc: Arend van Spriel <arend@...adcom.com>
Cc: "Franky (Zhenhui) Lin" <frankyl@...adcom.com>
Cc: Hante Meuleman <meuleman@...adcom.com>
Cc: "John W. Linville" <linville@...driver.com>
Cc: linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org
Cc: brcm80211-dev-list@...adcom.com
Cc: netdev@...r.kernel.org
---
 drivers/net/wireless/brcm80211/brcmsmac/main.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/brcm80211/brcmsmac/main.c b/drivers/net/wireless/brcm80211/brcmsmac/main.c
index 1b474828d5b8..aed0c948dce8 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/brcm80211/brcmsmac/main.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/brcm80211/brcmsmac/main.c
@@ -316,7 +316,7 @@ static const u16 xmtfifo_sz[][NFIFO] = {
 static const char * const fifo_names[] = {
 	"AC_BK", "AC_BE", "AC_VI", "AC_VO", "BCMC", "ATIM" };
 #else
-static const char fifo_names[6][0];
+static const char fifo_names[6][1];
 #endif
 
 #ifdef DEBUG
-- 
2.2.0

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