Re: [PATCH] init - fix building bug and potential buffer overflow
From: Geert Uytterhoeven
Date: Fri May 16 2008 - 03:01:06 EST
On Thu, 15 May 2008, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Fri, 16 May 2008 00:22:14 +0400
> "Cyrill Gorcunov" <gorcunov@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On 5/15/08, Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > On Thu, 15 May 2008, Cyrill Gorcunov wrote:
> > >> [Andrew Morton - Thu, May 15, 2008 at 10:58:03AM -0700]
> > >> | On Wed, 14 May 2008 19:44:02 +0400 Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@xxxxxxxxx>
> > >> wrote:
> > >> strlcat there but it seems it would fail to build too. Originally I've
> > >> messed
> > >> strlcat with strncat :(
> > >
> > > Actually it build and runs fine after s/strncat/strlcat/...
> > >
>
> (top-posting repaired)
>
> > Could you please make an update to the patch? I can make it only
> > tomorrow evening (ie not that fast)
>
> Like this?
Builds and boots fine!
> From: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@xxxxxxxxx>
>
> This patch fixes a build bug on m68k - gcc decides to emit a call to the
> strlen library function, which we don't implement. Use strlcat() instead.
>
>
> 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>
> Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
Geert
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