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Subject[PATCH] modpost: file2alias: define size of alias
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The size of the variable alias provided to do_entry functions are
currently not readily available. Thus hindering do_entry functions to
perform bounds checking.

Define the macro ALIAS_SIZE containing the size of the variable alias.

Signed-off-by: Mattias Jacobsson <2pi@mok.nu>
---

Related discussion: [1] and [2] (around the first answer line)

[1]: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20190128150909.4r3tje5l34u5t2xs@mok.nu/
[2]: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CAHp75VcLizx+jtMrbc3Ev-HcJVEjH2naFC0sj=7fX5nZSCGc8Q@mail.gmail.com/

---

scripts/mod/file2alias.c | 5 ++++-
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/scripts/mod/file2alias.c b/scripts/mod/file2alias.c
index a37af7d71973..afe22af20d7d 100644
--- a/scripts/mod/file2alias.c
+++ b/scripts/mod/file2alias.c
@@ -50,6 +50,9 @@ struct devtable {
int (*do_entry)(const char *filename, void *symval, char *alias);
};

+/* Size of alias provided to do_entry functions */
+#define ALIAS_SIZE 500
+
/* Define a variable f that holds the value of field f of struct devid
* based at address m.
*/
@@ -1303,7 +1306,7 @@ static void do_table(void *symval, unsigned long size,
struct module *mod)
{
unsigned int i;
- char alias[500];
+ char alias[ALIAS_SIZE];

device_id_check(mod->name, device_id, size, id_size, symval);
/* Leave last one: it's the terminator. */
--
2.20.1
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