[PATCH] init - fix building bug and potential buffer overflow

From: Cyrill Gorcunov
Date: Wed May 14 2008 - 11:44:22 EST


This patch does fix build bug on m68k wich does not have strncat in straight way.

What is more important - my previous patch

commit e662e1cfd434aa234b72fbc781f1d70211cb785b
Author: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon May 12 14:02:22 2008 -0700

init: don't lose initcall return values

has introduced potential buffer overflow by wrong calculation
of string accumulator size.

Many thanks Andreas Schwab and Geert Uytterhoeven for helping
to catch and fix the bug.

Signed-off-by: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@xxxxxxxxx>
---

Index: linux-2.6.git/init/main.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.git.orig/init/main.c 2008-05-14 17:55:10.000000000 +0400
+++ linux-2.6.git/init/main.c 2008-05-14 19:11:18.000000000 +0400
@@ -702,7 +702,7 @@ static void __init do_initcalls(void)

for (call = __initcall_start; call < __initcall_end; call++) {
ktime_t t0, t1, delta;
- char msgbuf[40];
+ char msgbuf[64];
int result;

if (initcall_debug) {
@@ -729,11 +729,11 @@ static void __init do_initcalls(void)
sprintf(msgbuf, "error code %d ", result);

if (preempt_count() != count) {
- strncat(msgbuf, "preemption imbalance ", sizeof(msgbuf));
+ strcat(msgbuf, "preemption imbalance ");
preempt_count() = count;
}
if (irqs_disabled()) {
- strncat(msgbuf, "disabled interrupts ", sizeof(msgbuf));
+ strcat(msgbuf, "disabled interrupts ");
local_irq_enable();
}
if (msgbuf[0]) {
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