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Subject[PATCH] Fix VIDIOCGAP corruption in ivtv
Frank Bennett reported that ivtv was causing skype to crash. With help
from one of their developers he showed it was a kernel problem.
VIDIOCGCAP copies a name into a fixed length buffer - ivtv uses names
that are too long and does not truncate them so corrupts a few bytes of
the app data area.

Possibly the names also want trimming but for now this should fix the
corruption case.

Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>

--- linux.vanilla-2.6.25-rc8-mm2/drivers/media/video/ivtv/ivtv-ioctl.c 2008-04-13 15:36:53.000000000 +0100
+++ linux-2.6.25-rc8-mm2/drivers/media/video/ivtv/ivtv-ioctl.c 2008-04-20 12:15:33.000000000 +0100
@@ -742,7 +742,8 @@

memset(vcap, 0, sizeof(*vcap));
strcpy(vcap->driver, IVTV_DRIVER_NAME); /* driver name */
- strcpy(vcap->card, itv->card_name); /* card type */
+ strncpy(vcap->card, itv->card_name,
+ sizeof(vcap->card)-1); /* card type */
strcpy(vcap->bus_info, pci_name(itv->dev)); /* bus info... */
vcap->version = IVTV_DRIVER_VERSION; /* version */
vcap->capabilities = itv->v4l2_cap; /* capabilities */
--
"Hello, welcome to Jon Masters' house of pain"
- Jon after a particularly good night


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