Re: [PATCH] staging: line6: fix possible overrun

[Dan Carpenter]

On Sat, Apr 26, 2014 at 11:59:46PM +0200, Mateusz Guzik wrote:
> > And sadly enough some of those ->id strings are more than 15 characters
> > and a NUL which will fit in card->id.  So this overflow is real.  The
> > card->shortname is a 32 char array so none of those overflow.
> > 
> > If we want to sovle the truncation issue then we need to think of
> > shorter names for BassPODxtLive, BassPODxtPro, PODStudioUX1, and
> > PODStudioUX2.
> > 
> 
> In that case I suggest compile time assertions that ids and names fit

That sounds like some magic code which I would love to see.  :)

>  and a WARN_ON + -EINVAL in line6_init_audio to catch future
>  offenders.

Returning -EINVAL is a bad idea because it would break the driver
completely and make it unusable.

> 
> As a side note I'm not sure if pod_try_init from drivers/staging/line6/pod.c
> cleans up properly after failed line6_init_audio.

Yeah.  It doesn't seem to clean up at all.

regards,
dan carpenter

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