Re: [PATCH] fat: fix buffer overflow in vfat_create_shortname()

From: OGAWA Hirofumi
Date: Thu Mar 25 2010 - 08:52:20 EST


OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> Nikolaus Schulz <microschulz@xxxxxx> writes:
>
>>> However, anyway, your patch is much better off than current one. So,
>>> I'll apply this in the next merge window.
>>>
>>> Or should we apply this immediately?
>>>
>>> Thanks.
>>
>> Given that this fixes a stack corruption which triggers the gcc stack
>> smashing protection and thus basically a crash, I vote for not
>> postponing it, but applying it immediately.
>
> Um..., where is a stack corruption? sprintf() overflow? But, it's
> actually snprintf(), not sprintf()...

Whoops, it was really sprintf().
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OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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