On Fri, Mar 07, 2014 at 07:10:57AM -0600, Ken Cox wrote:
> A character array was declared on the stack with variable length.  This has
> been corrected to use a fixed length.
> 
> Reported-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpen...@oracle.com>
> Signed-off-by: Ken Cox <j...@redhat.com>
> ---
>  drivers/staging/unisys/virthba/virthba.c | 7 ++++++-
>  1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/staging/unisys/virthba/virthba.c 
> b/drivers/staging/unisys/virthba/virthba.c
> index c292293..3820c57 100644
> --- a/drivers/staging/unisys/virthba/virthba.c
> +++ b/drivers/staging/unisys/virthba/virthba.c
> @@ -1439,12 +1439,17 @@ static ssize_t
>  enable_ints_write(struct file *file, const char __user *buffer,
>                 size_t count, loff_t *ppos)
>  {
> -     char buf[count + 1];
> +     char buf[4];
>       int i, new_value;
>       struct virthba_info *virthbainfo;
>       U64 *Features_addr;
>       U64 mask;
>  
> +     if (count > 2) {
> +             LOGERR("invalid  count<<%lu>>\n", count);

Nice, a simple way to DoS the syslog from any user :)

Don't even log this, you are going to be ripping all of those macros out
eventually, so don't add new ones...

thanks,

greg k-h
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