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From: Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>
To: "Zoltán Böszörményi" <zboszor@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, oe-kbuild-all@lists.linux.dev,
	zboszormenyi@sicom.com, kernel test robot <lkp@intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] egalax_ts_serial: Fix potential buffer overflow
Date: Sun, 3 Dec 2023 18:35:00 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <ZWzHv7X1UKgJJYTy@google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20231203090600.85890-1-zboszor@gmail.com>

Hi Zoltán,

On Sun, Dec 03, 2023 at 10:06:00AM +0100, Zoltán Böszörményi wrote:
> @@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ struct egalax {
>  	struct serio *serio;
>  	int idx;
>  	u8 data[EGALAX_FORMAT_MAX_LENGTH];
> -	char phys[32];
> +	char phys[NAME_MAX];

This simply wastes 200+ bytes for no good reason. It is perfectly fine
to truncate phys string (which does not happen in practice).

If you feel strongly about it then maybe use devm_kasprintf() to
allocate the needed buffer.

Thanks.

-- 
Dmitry

  reply	other threads:[~2023-12-03 18:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-12-03  6:07 drivers/input/touchscreen/egalax_ts_serial.c:116:21: warning: '/input0' directive output may be truncated writing 7 bytes into a region of size between 1 and 32 kernel test robot
2023-12-03  6:23 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2023-12-03  9:06 ` [PATCH] egalax_ts_serial: Fix potential buffer overflow Zoltán Böszörményi
2023-12-03 18:35   ` Dmitry Torokhov [this message]
2023-12-04  6:38     ` Böszörményi Zoltán
2023-12-04  6:40       ` [PATCH v2] " Zoltán Böszörményi
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2023-11-17 12:43 [PATCH] " Zoltán Böszörményi
2023-11-17  9:43 drivers/input/touchscreen/egalax_ts_serial.c:116:21: warning: '/input0' directive output may be truncated writing 7 bytes into a region of size between 1 and 32 kernel test robot
2023-12-03  9:05 ` [PATCH] egalax_ts_serial: Fix potential buffer overflow Zoltán Böszörményi

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