Re: [patch] acpi_pad: "processor_aggregator" name too long

[Pavel Machek]

On Fri 2010-03-19 14:48:06, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> cpi_device_class can only be 19 characters and a NULL terminator.
> 
> With the current name we get a buffer overflow in acpi_pad_add()
>         strcpy(acpi_device_class(device), ACPI_PROCESSOR_AGGREGATOR_CLASS);
> 
> Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <error27@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> Feel free to pick your own name if you don't like mine.  :)
> 
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/acpi/acpi_pad.c b/drivers/acpi/acpi_pad.c
> index 7e52295..2db89d9 100644
> --- a/drivers/acpi/acpi_pad.c
> +++ b/drivers/acpi/acpi_pad.c
> @@ -30,7 +30,7 @@
>  #include <acpi/acpi_bus.h>
>  #include <acpi/acpi_drivers.h>
>  
> -#define ACPI_PROCESSOR_AGGREGATOR_CLASS	"processor_aggregator"
> +#define ACPI_PROCESSOR_AGGREGATOR_CLASS	"proc_aggregator"

Sounds like /proc aggregator to me. "cpu_aggregator"?

>  #define ACPI_PROCESSOR_AGGREGATOR_DEVICE_NAME "Processor Aggregator"
>  #define ACPI_PROCESSOR_AGGREGATOR_NOTIFY 0x80
>  static DEFINE_MUTEX(isolated_cpus_lock);
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