This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
can-bcm: fix minor heap overflow
to the 2.6.32-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
can-bcm-fix-minor-heap-overflow.patch
and it can be found in the queue-2.6.32 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <[email protected]> know about it.
>From 0597d1b99fcfc2c0eada09a698f85ed413d4ba84 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Oliver Hartkopp <[email protected]>
Date: Wed, 10 Nov 2010 12:10:30 +0000
Subject: can-bcm: fix minor heap overflow
From: Oliver Hartkopp <[email protected]>
commit 0597d1b99fcfc2c0eada09a698f85ed413d4ba84 upstream.
On 64-bit platforms the ASCII representation of a pointer may be up to 17
bytes long. This patch increases the length of the buffer accordingly.
http://marc.info/?l=linux-netdev&m=128872251418192&w=2
Reported-by: Dan Rosenberg <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Oliver Hartkopp <[email protected]>
CC: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>
---
net/can/bcm.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
--- a/net/can/bcm.c
+++ b/net/can/bcm.c
@@ -124,7 +124,7 @@ struct bcm_sock {
struct list_head tx_ops;
unsigned long dropped_usr_msgs;
struct proc_dir_entry *bcm_proc_read;
- char procname [9]; /* pointer printed in ASCII with \0 */
+ char procname [20]; /* pointer printed in ASCII with \0 */
};
static inline struct bcm_sock *bcm_sk(const struct sock *sk)
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from [email protected] are
queue-2.6.32/can-bcm-fix-minor-heap-overflow.patch
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