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

[Nikolaus Schulz]

On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 09:52:12PM +0900, OGAWA Hirofumi wrote:
> 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().

Ping?

I really think this should go into 2.6.34 and the next stable kernel
updates.

Nikolaus
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