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SubjectRe: [patch] power_meter: acpi_device_class "power_meter_resource" too long
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On Friday 19 March 2010 12:49:20 Dan Carpenter wrote:
> acpi_device_class can only be 19 characters and a NULL terminator.
>
> The current code has a buffer overflow in acpi_power_meter_add():
> strcpy(acpi_device_class(device), ACPI_POWER_METER_CLASS);
Sounds as if it would be worth to add:
CC: stable@kernel.org
?
Same for processor_aggregator.

Thomas
>
> Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <error27@gmail.com>
> ---
> Feel free to change the name to anything you like.
>
> diff --git a/drivers/acpi/power_meter.c b/drivers/acpi/power_meter.c
> index 834c5af..31baa1e 100644
> --- a/drivers/acpi/power_meter.c
> +++ b/drivers/acpi/power_meter.c
> @@ -34,7 +34,7 @@
> #define ACPI_POWER_METER_NAME "power_meter"
> ACPI_MODULE_NAME(ACPI_POWER_METER_NAME);
> #define ACPI_POWER_METER_DEVICE_NAME "Power Meter"
> -#define ACPI_POWER_METER_CLASS "power_meter_resource"
> +#define ACPI_POWER_METER_CLASS "pwr_meter_resource"
>
> #define NUM_SENSORS 17
>
> --


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