From: Prarit Bhargava Date: Thu, 17 Oct 2013 12:00:11 +0000 (-0400) Subject: powerpc/vio: use strcpy in modalias_show X-Git-Tag: v3.4.71~7 X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=49aa69febe1dc8643e2d75ffcdf9504337fe4f7e;p=thirdparty%2Fkernel%2Fstable.git powerpc/vio: use strcpy in modalias_show commit 411cabf79e684171669ad29a0628c400b4431e95 upstream. Commit e82b89a6f19bae73fb064d1b3dd91fcefbb478f4 used strcat instead of strcpy which can result in an overflow of newlines on the buffer. Signed-off-by: Prarit Bhargava Cc: benh@kernel.crashing.org Cc: ben@decadent.org.uk Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/vio.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/vio.c index cfe0069bcfc89..fcf89bff1177c 100644 --- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/vio.c +++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/vio.c @@ -1342,12 +1342,12 @@ static ssize_t modalias_show(struct device *dev, struct device_attribute *attr, dn = dev->of_node; if (!dn) { - strcat(buf, "\n"); + strcpy(buf, "\n"); return strlen(buf); } cp = of_get_property(dn, "compatible", NULL); if (!cp) { - strcat(buf, "\n"); + strcpy(buf, "\n"); return strlen(buf); }