Re: s390 qemu boot failure in -next

From: Thomas Huth
Date: Tue Jun 26 2018 - 01:48:11 EST


On 26.06.2018 07:32, Georgi Guninski wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 25, 2018 at 09:27:59AM +0200, Christian Borntraeger wrote:
>> - /* Overwrite parameters in the kernel image, which are "rom" */
>> - strcpy(rom_ptr(KERN_PARM_AREA), ipl->cmdline);
>
>> + strcpy(rom_ptr(KERN_PARM_AREA), ipl->cmdline);
>
> Why not replace strcpy() with strncpy() or snprintf()?
> strcpy() may overflow.

This will be fixed by
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2018-06/msg04227.html by
adding a check for a valid size.

Thomas