Re: [PATCH] staging: fbtft: fix out of bound access

From: Sudip Mukherjee
Date: Thu Jun 04 2015 - 08:47:35 EST


On Thu, Jun 04, 2015 at 03:36:31PM +0300, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 04, 2015 at 05:12:01PM +0530, Sudip Mukherjee wrote:
> > size of str is 16, but in snprintf the size was mentioned as 128.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Sudip Mukherjee <sudip@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
<snip>
> Good eye. How did you find this?
:) not me. cppcheck.
>
> The good news is buf[j] is <= 0xFFFF so it won't actually overflow. Who
> knows why it is zero padded 2 spaces... But use sizeof(str) instead of
> 16.
but my v2 will remove the use of msg and str.

regards
sudip
>
> regards,
> dan carpenter
>
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