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* [perf PATCH] Fix possible unterminated readlink() result buffer
@ 2011-10-14 17:00 Thomas Jarosch
  2011-10-14 17:26 ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 2+ messages in thread
From: Thomas Jarosch @ 2011-10-14 17:00 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo; +Cc: linux-kernel

No need to do "buf[len] = '\0';" since the buffer
is allocated with zalloc().

Signed-off-by: Thomas Jarosch <thomas.jarosch@intra2net.com>
---
 tools/perf/util/header.c |    2 +-
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/tools/perf/util/header.c b/tools/perf/util/header.c
index b6c1ad1..1a1c026 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/header.c
+++ b/tools/perf/util/header.c
@@ -267,7 +267,7 @@ int build_id_cache__remove_s(const char *sbuild_id, const char *debugdir)
 	if (access(linkname, F_OK))
 		goto out_free;
 
-	if (readlink(linkname, filename, size) < 0)
+	if (readlink(linkname, filename, size-1) < 0)
 		goto out_free;
 
 	if (unlink(linkname))
-- 
1.7.6.4


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* Re: [perf PATCH] Fix possible unterminated readlink() result buffer
  2011-10-14 17:00 [perf PATCH] Fix possible unterminated readlink() result buffer Thomas Jarosch
@ 2011-10-14 17:26 ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 2+ messages in thread
From: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo @ 2011-10-14 17:26 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Thomas Jarosch; +Cc: linux-kernel

Em Fri, Oct 14, 2011 at 07:00:47PM +0200, Thomas Jarosch escreveu:
> No need to do "buf[len] = '\0';" since the buffer
> is allocated with zalloc().
> 
> Signed-off-by: Thomas Jarosch <thomas.jarosch@intra2net.com>

Thanks, applied.

- Arnaldo

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