From 0eb5a34cdf34ad07b6db2df1e523aaf6574601b4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Auke Kok Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2006 12:53:17 -0700 Subject: e100, e1000, ixgb: Fix an impossible memory overwrite bug We keep getting requests from people that think that this might be an exploitable hole where we would overwrite 4 bytes in the netdev struct if the pci name would exceed 15 characters. In reality this will never happen but we fix it anyway. Signed-off-by: Auke Kok --- drivers/net/ixgb/ixgb_main.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'drivers/net/ixgb') diff --git a/drivers/net/ixgb/ixgb_main.c b/drivers/net/ixgb/ixgb_main.c index a88c2b8b66b1..fb4c1ad745b2 100644 --- a/drivers/net/ixgb/ixgb_main.c +++ b/drivers/net/ixgb/ixgb_main.c @@ -437,7 +437,7 @@ ixgb_probe(struct pci_dev *pdev, netdev->poll_controller = ixgb_netpoll; #endif - strcpy(netdev->name, pci_name(pdev)); + strncpy(netdev->name, pci_name(pdev), sizeof(netdev->name) - 1); netdev->mem_start = mmio_start; netdev->mem_end = mmio_start + mmio_len; netdev->base_addr = adapter->hw.io_base; -- cgit v1.2.3