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From: Sudip Mukherjee <sudipm.mukherjee@gmail.com>
To: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
Cc: "Thomas Petazzoni" <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>,
	"Noralf Trønnes" <noralf@tronnes.org>,
	"Greg Kroah-Hartman" <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
	devel@driverdev.osuosl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] staging: fbtft: fix out of bound access
Date: Thu, 4 Jun 2015 18:17:18 +0530	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150604124332.GA20510@sudip-PC> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20150604123631.GE28762@mwanda>

On Thu, Jun 04, 2015 at 03:36:31PM +0300, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 04, 2015 at 05:12:01PM +0530, Sudip Mukherjee wrote:
> > size of str is 16, but in snprintf the size was mentioned as 128.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Sudip Mukherjee <sudip@vectorindia.org>
> > ---
<snip>
> Good eye.  How did you find this?
:) not me. cppcheck. 
> 
> The good news is buf[j] is <= 0xFFFF so it won't actually overflow.  Who
> knows why it is zero padded 2 spaces...  But use sizeof(str) instead of
> 16.
but my v2 will remove the use of msg and str.

regards
sudip
> 
> regards,
> dan carpenter
> 

      reply	other threads:[~2015-06-04 12:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-06-04 11:42 [PATCH] staging: fbtft: fix out of bound access Sudip Mukherjee
2015-06-04 12:12 ` Joe Perches
2015-06-04 12:21   ` Sudip Mukherjee
2015-06-04 12:36 ` Dan Carpenter
2015-06-04 12:47   ` Sudip Mukherjee [this message]

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