netdev - Re: [PATCH 13/22] liquidio: fix possible eeprom format string overflow

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Message-ID: <20170714224009.2537mysgwab272xp@caviumnetworks.com>
Date:   Fri, 14 Jul 2017 15:40:09 -0700
From:   "Burla, Satananda" <Satananda.Burla@...ium.com>
To:     "Chickles, Derek" <Derek.Chickles@...ium.com>,
        "Manlunas, Felix" <Felix.Manlunas@...ium.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 13/22] liquidio: fix possible eeprom format string
 overflow

The 07/14/2017 09:04, David Miller wrote:
> From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
> Date: Fri, 14 Jul 2017 14:07:05 +0200
> 
> > gcc reports that the temporary buffer for computing the
> > string length may be too small here:
> >
> > drivers/net/ethernet/cavium/liquidio/lio_ethtool.c: In function
> 'lio_get_eeprom_len':
> > /drivers/net/ethernet/cavium/liquidio/lio_ethtool.c:345:21: error: 'sprintf'
> may write a terminating nul past the end of the destination [-Werror=
> format-overflow=]
> >   len = sprintf(buf, "boardname:%s serialnum:%s maj:%lld min:%lld\n",
> >                      ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> > drivers/net/ethernet/cavium/liquidio/lio_ethtool.c:345:6: note: 'sprintf'
> output between 35 and 167 bytes into a destination of size 128
> >   len = sprintf(buf, "boardname:%s serialnum:%s maj:%lld min:%lld\n",
> >
> > This extends it to 192 bytes, which is certainly enough. As far
> > as I could tell, there are no other constraints that require a specific
> > maximum size.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
> 
> Applied.
I had raised a bug for this earlier and attached a patch as well. 

http://cabugzilla1.caveonetworks.com/octeon_bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=26421


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Satanand