From: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@gmx.de>
Date: Sun, 25 Jun 2006 12:47:35 +0000 (-0700)
Subject: [PATCH] openpromfs: fix missing NUL
X-Git-Tag: v2.6.18-rc1~1005
X-Git-Url: http://review.tizen.org/git/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=0928d68056fa25456830b1de9f0ee89bc37447cd;p=profile%2Fivi%2Fkernel-x86-ivi.git

[PATCH] openpromfs: fix missing NUL

tchars is not '\0'-terminated so the strtoul may run into problems.  Fix that.
 Also make tchars as big as a long in hexadecimal form would take rather than
just 16.

Signed-off-by: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@gmx.de>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
---

diff --git a/fs/openpromfs/inode.c b/fs/openpromfs/inode.c
index 464e2bc..c0cbe97 100644
--- a/fs/openpromfs/inode.c
+++ b/fs/openpromfs/inode.c
@@ -448,10 +448,11 @@ static ssize_t property_write(struct file *filp, const char __user *buf,
 					*q |= simple_strtoul (tmp, NULL, 16);
 					buf += last_cnt;
 				} else {
-					char tchars[17]; /* XXX yuck... */
+					char tchars[2 * sizeof(long) + 1];
 
-					if (copy_from_user(tchars, buf, 16))
+					if (copy_from_user(tchars, buf, sizeof(tchars) - 1))
 						return -EFAULT;
+                                        tchars[sizeof(tchars) - 1] = '\0';
 					*q = simple_strtoul (tchars, NULL, 16);
 					buf += 9;
 				}