patch "siox: fix possible buffer overflow in device_add_store" added to char-misc-next

[<gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

    siox: fix possible buffer overflow in device_add_store

to my char-misc git tree which can be found at
    git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/char-misc.git
in the char-misc-next branch.

The patch will show up in the next release of the linux-next tree
(usually sometime within the next 24 hours during the week.)

The patch will also be merged in the next major kernel release
during the merge window.

If you have any questions about this process, please let me know.


>From f87deada80fe483e2286e29cd866dc66ddc2b6bc Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Gavin Schenk <g.schenk@eckelmann.de>
Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2018 15:25:02 +0100
Subject: siox: fix possible buffer overflow in device_add_store
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Width 20 given in format string is larger than destination
buffer 'type[20]', use %19s to prevent overflowing it.

Fixes: bbecb07fa0af ("siox: new driver framework for eckelmann SIOX")
Cc: stable <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Reported-by: David Binderman <dcb314@hotmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Gavin Schenk <g.schenk@eckelmann.de>
Reviewed-by: Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
---
 drivers/siox/siox-core.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/siox/siox-core.c b/drivers/siox/siox-core.c
index fdfcdea25867..16590dfaafa4 100644
--- a/drivers/siox/siox-core.c
+++ b/drivers/siox/siox-core.c
@@ -594,7 +594,7 @@ static ssize_t device_add_store(struct device *dev,
 	size_t inbytes = 0, outbytes = 0;
 	u8 statustype = 0;
 
-	ret = sscanf(buf, "%20s %zu %zu %hhu", type, &inbytes,
+	ret = sscanf(buf, "%19s %zu %zu %hhu", type, &inbytes,
 		     &outbytes, &statustype);
 	if (ret != 3 && ret != 4)
 		return -EINVAL;
-- 
2.16.2