Re: [PATCH] IDE-TAPE NULL terminate strings.

[Mark de Wever]

On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 03:56:49PM +0200, Boris Petkov wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 3:16 PM, Sergei Shtylyov
> <sshtylyov@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Hello.
> >
> .. and I know why :). Those ide_tape_obj members (char fw_rev[6], vendor_id[10],
> product_id[18]) were used only once in idetape_get_inquiry_results() so I moved
> them there as local stack variables. Originally, they were kzalloc'ed as part of
> struct ide_tape_obj and now they contain stack garbage therefore the funny
> values. The simple solution would be to zero them out or:
> 
> 
> Does the following patch help?

Yes feel free to add my tested-by.

Only not sure whether the static is the best solution, the following
patch also works, by zeroing the memory as you suggested.

Signed-off-by: Mark de Wever <koraq@xxxxxxxxx>

diff --git a/drivers/ide/ide-tape.c b/drivers/ide/ide-tape.c
index 1bce84b..c41f5b1 100644
--- a/drivers/ide/ide-tape.c
+++ b/drivers/ide/ide-tape.c
@@ -2338,7 +2338,7 @@ static void idetape_get_inquiry_results(ide_drive_t *drive)
 {
 	idetape_tape_t *tape = drive->driver_data;
 	struct ide_atapi_pc pc;
-	char fw_rev[6], vendor_id[10], product_id[18];
+	char fw_rev[6] = {'\0'}, vendor_id[10] = {'\0'}, product_id[18] = {'\0'};
 
 	idetape_create_inquiry_cmd(&pc);
 	if (idetape_queue_pc_tail(drive, &pc)) {

-- 
Regards,
Mark de Wever
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