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From: Olaf Hering <olh@suse.de>
To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] symlink name and possible overflow in create_node()
Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2004 19:00:10 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040217190010.GA9773@suse.de> (raw)


the filename array might overflow if I interpret the strncat man page correctly.

Why does a symlink look like './foo' instead of just 'foo'?

--- ./udev-add.c~       2004-02-16 22:58:24.000000000 +0100
+++ ./udev-add.c        2004-02-17 19:56:56.000000000 +0100
@@ -146,7 +146,7 @@ static int create_node(struct udevice *d
        int tail;

        strncpy(filename, udev_root, sizeof(filename));
-       strncat(filename, dev->name, sizeof(filename));
+       strncat(filename, dev->name, sizeof(filename) - strlen(filename));

        switch (dev->type) {
        case 'b':
@@ -247,8 +247,6 @@ static int create_node(struct udevice *d
                                i++;
                        }

-                       if (linktarget[0] = '\0')
-                               strcpy(linktarget, "./");
                        strcat(linktarget, &dev->name[tail]);

                        /* unlink existing files to ensure that our symlink is created */

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             reply	other threads:[~2004-02-17 19:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-02-17 19:00 Olaf Hering [this message]
2004-02-17 19:22 ` [PATCH] symlink name and possible overflow in create_node() Johannes Erdfelt
2004-02-17 19:47 ` Kay Sievers
2004-02-18  8:27 ` John L. Fjellstad
2004-02-18 10:08 ` Kay Sievers
2004-02-18 11:03 ` John L. Fjellstad

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