Re: [PATCH][next] wlcore: Fix buffer overrun by snprintf due to incorrect buffer size Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"

From: Arnd Bergmann
Date: Mon Apr 19 2021 - 10:13:35 EST


On Mon, Apr 19, 2021 at 4:01 PM Colin King <colin.king@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> From: Colin Ian King <colin.king@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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> The size of the buffer than can be written to is currently incorrect, it is
> always the size of the entire buffer even though the snprintf is writing
> as position pos into the buffer. Fix this by setting the buffer size to be
> the number of bytes left in the buffer, namely sizeof(buf) - pos.
>
> Addresses-Coverity: ("Out-of-bounds access")
> Fixes: 7b0e2c4f6be3 ("wlcore: fix overlapping snprintf arguments in debugfs")
> Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>