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[PATCH] Fix overflow of name in struct net_device, replaced sprintf with snprintf.

From: Sasikanth V <hidden>
Date: 2011-03-15 20:00:19
Subsystem: networking [general], the rest · Maintainers: "David S. Miller", Eric Dumazet, Jakub Kicinski, Paolo Abeni, Linus Torvalds

Signed-off-by: Sasikanth V <redacted>
---
 net/core/dev.c |    2 +-
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
diff --git a/net/core/dev.c b/net/core/dev.c
index 6561021..a74efa9 100644
--- a/net/core/dev.c
+++ b/net/core/dev.c
@@ -539,7 +539,7 @@ unsigned long netdev_boot_base(const char *prefix, int unit)
 	char name[IFNAMSIZ];
 	int i;
 
-	sprintf(name, "%s%d", prefix, unit);
+	snprintf(name, IFNAMSIZ, "%s%d", prefix, unit);
 
 	/*
 	 * If device already registered then return base of 1
-- 
1.7.3.4
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