[PATCH] staging: rtl8723bs: ensure cmd is large enough for %4s scanf format

Colin King colin.king at canonical.com
Tue Apr 11 21:21:47 UTC 2017


From: Colin Ian King <colin.king at canonical.com>

char array cmd is being scanned in using a %4s scanf format
specifier and so cmd must be an array of 5 chars. Increase size
to 5 chars to ensure we don't have an overflow.

Detected with static analysis by cppcheck:

"(error) Width 4 given in format string (no. 1) is larger than
destination buffer 'cmd[4]', use %3s to prevent overflowing it."

Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king at canonical.com>
---
 drivers/staging/rtl8723bs/os_dep/rtw_proc.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/staging/rtl8723bs/os_dep/rtw_proc.c b/drivers/staging/rtl8723bs/os_dep/rtw_proc.c
index a2011e06d719..8de65e5c80d5 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/rtl8723bs/os_dep/rtw_proc.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/rtl8723bs/os_dep/rtw_proc.c
@@ -295,7 +295,7 @@ static ssize_t proc_set_cam(struct file *file, const char __user *buffer, size_t
 	struct adapter *adapter;
 
 	char tmp[32];
-	char cmd[4];
+	char cmd[5];
 	u8 id;
 
 	adapter = (struct adapter *)rtw_netdev_priv(dev);
-- 
2.11.0



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