Re: mwifiex: printk() overflow with 32-byte SSIDs

From	Kalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org>
Newsgroups	linux.kernel
Subject	Re: mwifiex: printk() overflow with 32-byte SSIDs
Date	2016-11-17 12:20 +0100
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Brian Norris <briannorris@chromium.org> wrote:
> SSIDs aren't guaranteed to be 0-terminated. Let's cap the max length
> when we print them out.
> 
> This can be easily noticed by connecting to a network with a 32-octet
> SSID:
> 
> [ 3903.502925] mwifiex_pcie 0000:01:00.0: info: trying to associate to
> '0123456789abcdef0123456789abcdef <uninitialized mem>' bssid
> xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx
> 
> Fixes: 5e6e3a92b9a4 ("wireless: mwifiex: initial commit for Marvell mwifiex driver")
> Signed-off-by: Brian Norris <briannorris@chromium.org>
> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
> Acked-by: Amitkumar Karwar <akarwar@marvell.com>

Patch applied to wireless-drivers.git, thanks.

fcd2042e8d36 mwifiex: printk() overflow with 32-byte SSIDs

-- 
https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/9418369/

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