Thread (1 message) 1 message, 1 author, 2006-12-07
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[patch 3/7] d80211: fix potential interface name overflow

From: David Kimdon <hidden>
Date: 2006-12-07 00:45:12

dev->name and ndev->name are both IFNAMSIZ in length, the ".%d" is
not guarenteed to fit in ndev->name.

Signed-off-by: David Kimdon <redacted>

Index: wireless-dev/net/d80211/ieee80211_iface.c
===================================================================
--- wireless-dev.orig/net/d80211/ieee80211_iface.c
+++ wireless-dev/net/d80211/ieee80211_iface.c
@@ -56,7 +56,8 @@ int ieee80211_if_add(struct net_device *
 	if (strlen(name) == 0) {
 		i = 0;
 		do {
-			sprintf(ndev->name, "%s.%d", dev->name, i++);
+			snprintf(ndev->name, sizeof(ndev->name), "%s.%d",
+				 dev->name, i++);
 			tmp_dev = dev_get_by_name(ndev->name);
 			if (!tmp_dev)
 				break;

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