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Re: [PATCH] PM / OPP: Use snprintf() instead of sprintf()

From "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@rjwysocki.net>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: [PATCH] PM / OPP: Use snprintf() instead of sprintf()
Date 2016-01-08 01:20 +0100
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On Tuesday, January 05, 2016 04:15:54 PM Viresh Kumar wrote:
> sprintf() can access memory outside of the range of the character array,
> and is risky in some situations. The driver specified prop_name string
> can be longer than NAME_MAX here (only an attacker will do that though)
> and so blindly copying it into the character array of size NAME_MAX
> isn't safe. Instead we must use snprintf() here.
> 
> Reported-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
> Signed-off-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>

Applied, thanks!

> ---
>  drivers/base/power/opp/core.c | 6 ++++--
>  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/base/power/opp/core.c b/drivers/base/power/opp/core.c
> index cd230c63aee6..cf351d3dab1c 100644
> --- a/drivers/base/power/opp/core.c
> +++ b/drivers/base/power/opp/core.c
> @@ -808,7 +808,8 @@ static int opp_parse_supplies(struct dev_pm_opp *opp, struct device *dev,
>  
>  	/* Search for "opp-microvolt-<name>" */
>  	if (dev_opp->prop_name) {
> -		sprintf(name, "opp-microvolt-%s", dev_opp->prop_name);
> +		snprintf(name, sizeof(name), "opp-microvolt-%s",
> +			 dev_opp->prop_name);
>  		prop = of_find_property(opp->np, name, NULL);
>  	}
>  
> @@ -849,7 +850,8 @@ static int opp_parse_supplies(struct dev_pm_opp *opp, struct device *dev,
>  	/* Search for "opp-microamp-<name>" */
>  	prop = NULL;
>  	if (dev_opp->prop_name) {
> -		sprintf(name, "opp-microamp-%s", dev_opp->prop_name);
> +		snprintf(name, sizeof(name), "opp-microamp-%s",
> +			 dev_opp->prop_name);
>  		prop = of_find_property(opp->np, name, NULL);
>  	}
>  
> 

-- 
I speak only for myself.
Rafael J. Wysocki, Intel Open Source Technology Center.

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[PATCH] PM / OPP: Use snprintf() instead of sprintf() Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org> - 2016-01-05 11:50 +0100
  Re: [PATCH] PM / OPP: Use snprintf() instead of sprintf() Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> - 2016-01-05 12:00 +0100
  Re: [PATCH] PM / OPP: Use snprintf() instead of sprintf() Stephen Boyd <sboyd@codeaurora.org> - 2016-01-05 21:00 +0100
  Re: [PATCH] PM / OPP: Use snprintf() instead of sprintf() "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@rjwysocki.net> - 2016-01-08 01:20 +0100

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