[alsa-devel] [PATCH] ASoC: Intel: sst: Fix firmware name size handling

Mark Brown broonie at kernel.org
Sun Feb 8 04:52:11 CET 2015


On Sat, Feb 07, 2015 at 11:40:52PM +0100, Christian Engelmayer wrote:
> Function sst_acpi_probe() uses plain strcpy for setting member firmware_name
> of a struct intel_sst_drv from member firmware of a struct sst_machines.
> Thereby the destination array has got a length of 20 byte while the source may
> hold 32 byte. Since eg. commit 64b9c90b8600 ("ASoC: Intel: Fix BYTCR firmware
> name") increased strings from "fw_sst_0f28.bin" to "intel/fw_sst_0f28.bin"
> there is an actual possibility that the 20 byte array at the end of struct
> intel_sst_drv is overrun.

Applied, thanks, though it seems more robust to stop copying the strings
at all and instead just make as many of the fields char * as we can.
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