[PATCH] staging: rtl8723bs: fix copy of overlapping memory

Colin King colin.king at canonical.com
Sun Jan 26 22:05:49 UTC 2020


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

Currently the rtw_sprintf prints the contents of thread_name
onto thread_name and this can lead to a potential copy of a
string over itself. Avoid this by printing the literal string RTWHALXT
instread of the contents of thread_name.

Addresses-Coverity: ("copy of overlapping memory")
Fixes: 554c0a3abf21 ("staging: Add rtl8723bs sdio wifi driver")
Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king at canonical.com>
---
 drivers/staging/rtl8723bs/hal/rtl8723bs_xmit.c | 5 ++---
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/staging/rtl8723bs/hal/rtl8723bs_xmit.c b/drivers/staging/rtl8723bs/hal/rtl8723bs_xmit.c
index b44e902ed338..890e0ecbeb2e 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/rtl8723bs/hal/rtl8723bs_xmit.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/rtl8723bs/hal/rtl8723bs_xmit.c
@@ -476,14 +476,13 @@ int rtl8723bs_xmit_thread(void *context)
 	s32 ret;
 	struct adapter *padapter;
 	struct xmit_priv *pxmitpriv;
-	u8 thread_name[20] = "RTWHALXT";
-
+	u8 thread_name[20];
 
 	ret = _SUCCESS;
 	padapter = context;
 	pxmitpriv = &padapter->xmitpriv;
 
-	rtw_sprintf(thread_name, 20, "%s-"ADPT_FMT, thread_name, ADPT_ARG(padapter));
+	rtw_sprintf(thread_name, 20, "RTWHALXT-" ADPT_FMT, ADPT_ARG(padapter));
 	thread_enter(thread_name);
 
 	DBG_871X("start "FUNC_ADPT_FMT"\n", FUNC_ADPT_ARG(padapter));
-- 
2.24.0



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