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SubjectRe: [PATCH v2] Fix buffer overrun in HID-SENSOR name string
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On 13/03/2023 23:06, Todd Brandt wrote:
> On some platforms there are some platform devices created with
> invalid names. For example: "HID-SENSOR-INT-020b?.39.auto" instead
> of "HID-SENSOR-INT-020b.39.auto"
>
> This string include some invalid characters, hence it will fail to
> properly load the driver which will handle this custom sensor. Also
> it is a problem for some user space tools, which parse the device
> names from ftrace and dmesg.
>
> This is because the string, real_usage, is not NULL terminated and
> printed with %s to form device name.
>
> To address this, we initialize the real_usage string with 0s.
>
> Philipp Jungkamp created this fix, I'm simply submitting it. I've
> verified it fixes bugzilla issue 217169
>
> Reported-and-tested-by: Todd Brandt <todd.e.brandt@linux.intel.com>
> Signed-off-by: Todd Brandt <todd.e.brandt@intel.com>

SoB denotes that you reported this and tested. Otherwise shall we start
adding Reported and Tested tags to all of our commits?


Best regards,
Krzysztof

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