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Staging: brcm80211: make interface name buffer smaller
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In the original code the interface name was IFNAMSIZ + 1, but that
caused problems in dhd_ifname2idx() which does:
	strncmp(dhd->iflist[i]->name, name, IFNAMSIZ)

The wl_event_msg_t struct can only store 16 character names as well.

And thirdly there is a potential buffer overflow in dhd_op_if() because
if->net->name is IFNAMSIZ and we do:
	strcpy(ifp->net->name, ifp->name);

Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <error27@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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Dan Carpenter authored and Greg Kroah-Hartman committed Oct 9, 2010
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5 changes: 2 additions & 3 deletions drivers/staging/brcm80211/brcmfmac/dhd_linux.c
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Expand Up @@ -217,7 +217,7 @@ typedef struct dhd_if {
u8 mac_addr[ETHER_ADDR_LEN]; /* assigned MAC address */
bool attached; /* Delayed attachment when unset */
bool txflowcontrol; /* Per interface flow control indicator */
char name[IFNAMSIZ + 1]; /* linux interface name */
char name[IFNAMSIZ]; /* linux interface name */
} dhd_if_t;

/* Local private structure (extension of pub) */
Expand Down Expand Up @@ -1871,8 +1871,7 @@ dhd_add_if(dhd_info_t *dhd, int ifidx, void *handle, char *name,
memset(ifp, 0, sizeof(dhd_if_t));
ifp->info = dhd;
dhd->iflist[ifidx] = ifp;
strncpy(ifp->name, name, IFNAMSIZ);
ifp->name[IFNAMSIZ] = '\0';
strlcpy(ifp->name, name, IFNAMSIZ);
if (mac_addr != NULL)
memcpy(&ifp->mac_addr, mac_addr, ETHER_ADDR_LEN);

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