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authorDan Carpenter <error27@gmail.com>2011-03-10 18:23:26 +0300
committerJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>2011-03-11 14:15:36 -0500
commitd89dba7a275f40757d27ba16c8bc6aa424656bbe (patch)
treec42b16fc568b9ffdb0458b59c6112f9eb9f24792 /drivers/net/wireless/libertas/mesh.c
parent23952ec92850bcdc91b8167fa95ec05dd59a80ea (diff)
libertas: fix write past end of array in mesh_id_get()
defs.meshie.val.mesh_id is 32 chars long. It's not supposed to be NUL terminated. This code puts a terminator on the end to make it easier to print to sysfs. The problem is that if the mesh_id fills the entire buffer the original code puts the terminator one spot past the end. The way the original code was written, there was a check to make sure that maxlen was less than PAGE_SIZE. Since we know that maxlen is at most 34 chars, I just removed the check. Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <error27@gmail.com> Acked-by: Dan Williams <dcbw@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/net/wireless/libertas/mesh.c')
-rw-r--r--drivers/net/wireless/libertas/mesh.c11
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/libertas/mesh.c b/drivers/net/wireless/libertas/mesh.c
index acf3bf63ee3..9d097b9c800 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/libertas/mesh.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/libertas/mesh.c
@@ -918,7 +918,6 @@ static ssize_t mesh_id_get(struct device *dev, struct device_attribute *attr,
char *buf)
{
struct mrvl_mesh_defaults defs;
- int maxlen;
int ret;
ret = mesh_get_default_parameters(dev, &defs);
@@ -931,13 +930,11 @@ static ssize_t mesh_id_get(struct device *dev, struct device_attribute *attr,
defs.meshie.val.mesh_id_len = IEEE80211_MAX_SSID_LEN;
}
- /* SSID not null terminated: reserve room for \0 + \n */
- maxlen = defs.meshie.val.mesh_id_len + 2;
- maxlen = (PAGE_SIZE > maxlen) ? maxlen : PAGE_SIZE;
+ memcpy(buf, defs.meshie.val.mesh_id, defs.meshie.val.mesh_id_len);
+ buf[defs.meshie.val.mesh_id_len] = '\n';
+ buf[defs.meshie.val.mesh_id_len + 1] = '\0';
- defs.meshie.val.mesh_id[defs.meshie.val.mesh_id_len] = '\0';
-
- return snprintf(buf, maxlen, "%s\n", defs.meshie.val.mesh_id);
+ return defs.meshie.val.mesh_id_len + 1;
}
/**