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Subject[patch 15/46] drivers/net/irda/irda-usb.c: fix buffer overflow
2.6.28-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let us know.

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From: Jos-Vicente Gilabert <josevteg@gmail.com>

commit 2950e952920811be465ec95c6b56f03dc66a05c0 upstream.

Taken from http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12397

We're doing an sprintf of an 11-char string into an 11-char buffer.
Whoops. It breaks firmware uploading.

Reported-by: Jos-Vicente Gilabert <josevteg@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

---
drivers/net/irda/irda-usb.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/drivers/net/irda/irda-usb.c
+++ b/drivers/net/irda/irda-usb.c
@@ -1075,7 +1075,7 @@ static int stir421x_patch_device(struct
{
unsigned int i;
int ret;
- char stir421x_fw_name[11];
+ char stir421x_fw_name[12];
const struct firmware *fw;
const unsigned char *fw_version_ptr; /* pointer to version string */
unsigned long fw_version = 0;


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