From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754786Ab0CVPnu (ORCPT ); Mon, 22 Mar 2010 11:43:50 -0400 Received: from mail.perches.com ([173.55.12.10]:1031 "EHLO mail.perches.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751696Ab0CVPns (ORCPT ); Mon, 22 Mar 2010 11:43:48 -0400 Subject: Re: [patch v2] cx231xx: card->driver "Conexant cx231xx Audio" too long From: Joe Perches To: Dan Carpenter Cc: Takashi Iwai , Mauro Carvalho Chehab , Srinivasa Deevi , linux-media@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <20100322153909.GC23411@bicker> References: <20100319114957.GQ5331@bicker> <20100322153909.GC23411@bicker> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Date: Mon, 22 Mar 2010 08:43:47 -0700 Message-ID: <1269272627.22616.35.camel@Joe-Laptop.home> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.28.3 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, 2010-03-22 at 18:39 +0300, Dan Carpenter wrote: > card->driver is 15 characters and a NULL, the original code could > cause a buffer overflow. > In version 2, I used a better name that Takashi Iwai suggested. Perhaps it's better to use strncpy as well.