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From: Dan Carpenter <error27@gmail.com>
To: Armin Schindler <armin@melware.de>
Cc: Karsten Keil <isdn@linux-pingi.de>,
	netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch] eicon: make buffer larger
Date: Wed, 06 Oct 2010 12:11:20 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20101006121119.GA11681@bicker> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.2.00.1010061043550.29582@justus.melware.de>

On Wed, Oct 06, 2010 at 10:44:47AM +0200, Armin Schindler wrote:
>>   927    strcpy (clients[id].drvName,     tmp);
>>   928    strcpy (clients[id].Dbg.drvName, tmp);
>>                               ^
>>                    this buffer is only 16 chars
>
> Now I understand. You are right. So the fix would be to change these  
> strcpy() to e.g. strncpy() or similar.
>

We need more than 16 characters to store the information.  What is the
problem with just making the buffer larger?

regards,
dan carpenter

> Armin

WARNING: multiple messages have this Message-ID (diff)
From: Dan Carpenter <error27@gmail.com>
To: Armin Schindler <armin@melware.de>
Cc: Karsten Keil <isdn@linux-pingi.de>,
	netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch] eicon: make buffer larger
Date: Wed, 6 Oct 2010 14:11:20 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20101006121119.GA11681@bicker> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.2.00.1010061043550.29582@justus.melware.de>

On Wed, Oct 06, 2010 at 10:44:47AM +0200, Armin Schindler wrote:
>>   927    strcpy (clients[id].drvName,     tmp);
>>   928    strcpy (clients[id].Dbg.drvName, tmp);
>>                               ^
>>                    this buffer is only 16 chars
>
> Now I understand. You are right. So the fix would be to change these  
> strcpy() to e.g. strncpy() or similar.
>

We need more than 16 characters to store the information.  What is the
problem with just making the buffer larger?

regards,
dan carpenter

> Armin

  reply	other threads:[~2010-10-06 12:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-10-04 19:24 [patch] eicon: make buffer larger Dan Carpenter
2010-10-04 19:24 ` Dan Carpenter
2010-10-06  7:25 ` Armin Schindler
2010-10-06  7:25   ` Armin Schindler
2010-10-06  7:47   ` Dan Carpenter
2010-10-06  7:47     ` Dan Carpenter
2010-10-06  8:16     ` walter harms
2010-10-06  8:16       ` walter harms
2010-10-06  8:21     ` Armin Schindler
2010-10-06  8:21       ` Armin Schindler
2010-10-06  8:31       ` Dan Carpenter
2010-10-06  8:31         ` Dan Carpenter
2010-10-06  8:44         ` Armin Schindler
2010-10-06  8:44           ` Armin Schindler
2010-10-06 12:11           ` Dan Carpenter [this message]
2010-10-06 12:11             ` Dan Carpenter
2010-10-06 12:49             ` Armin Schindler
2010-10-06 12:49               ` Armin Schindler
2010-10-07  6:30 ` David Miller
2010-10-07  6:30   ` David Miller

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