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isdn: icn: Fix potentially wrong string handling

Message ID 1296419486-5482-1-git-send-email-weil@mail.berlios.de
State Accepted, archived
Delegated to: David Miller
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Stefan Weil Jan. 30, 2011, 8:31 p.m. UTC
This warning was reported by cppcheck:
drivers/isdn/icn/icn.c:1641: error: Dangerous usage of 'rev' (strncpy doesn't always 0-terminate it)

If strncpy copied 20 bytes, the destination string rev was not terminated.
The patch adds one more byte to rev and makes sure that this byte is
always 0.

Cc: Karsten Keil <isdn@linux-pingi.de>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Stefan Weil <weil@mail.berlios.de>
---
 drivers/isdn/icn/icn.c |   15 ++++++++-------
 1 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

Comments

David Miller Feb. 1, 2011, 10:18 p.m. UTC | #1
From: Stefan Weil <weil@mail.berlios.de>
Date: Sun, 30 Jan 2011 21:31:26 +0100

> This warning was reported by cppcheck:
> drivers/isdn/icn/icn.c:1641: error: Dangerous usage of 'rev' (strncpy doesn't always 0-terminate it)
> 
> If strncpy copied 20 bytes, the destination string rev was not terminated.
> The patch adds one more byte to rev and makes sure that this byte is
> always 0.
> 
> Cc: Karsten Keil <isdn@linux-pingi.de>
> Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
> Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
> Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
> Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
> Signed-off-by: Stefan Weil <weil@mail.berlios.de>

Applied, thanks.
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Patch

diff --git a/drivers/isdn/icn/icn.c b/drivers/isdn/icn/icn.c
index f2b5bab..540c181 100644
--- a/drivers/isdn/icn/icn.c
+++ b/drivers/isdn/icn/icn.c
@@ -1627,7 +1627,7 @@  __setup("icn=", icn_setup);
 static int __init icn_init(void)
 {
 	char *p;
-	char rev[20];
+	char rev[21];
 
 	memset(&dev, 0, sizeof(icn_dev));
 	dev.memaddr = (membase & 0x0ffc000);
@@ -1638,6 +1638,7 @@  static int __init icn_init(void)
 
 	if ((p = strchr(revision, ':'))) {
 		strncpy(rev, p + 1, 20);
+		rev[20] = '\0';
 		p = strchr(rev, '$');
 		if (p)
 			*p = 0;