From: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Date: Thu, 22 Nov 2007 02:43:10 +0000 (+0100)
Subject: kbuild: fix a buffer overflow in modpost
X-Git-Url: http://git.cdn.openwrt.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=666ab414fe14e8bbbe86a110437346128e1ec869;p=openwrt%2Fstaging%2Fblogic.git

kbuild: fix a buffer overflow in modpost

When passing an file name > 1k the stack could be overflowed.
Not really a security issue, but still better plugged.
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
---

diff --git a/scripts/mod/modpost.c b/scripts/mod/modpost.c
index 404ee0d0aac6..4d1c59063b27 100644
--- a/scripts/mod/modpost.c
+++ b/scripts/mod/modpost.c
@@ -1656,7 +1656,6 @@ int main(int argc, char **argv)
 {
 	struct module *mod;
 	struct buffer buf = { };
-	char fname[SZ];
 	char *kernel_read = NULL, *module_read = NULL;
 	char *dump_write = NULL;
 	int opt;
@@ -1709,6 +1708,8 @@ int main(int argc, char **argv)
 	err = 0;
 
 	for (mod = modules; mod; mod = mod->next) {
+		char fname[strlen(mod->name) + 10];
+
 		if (mod->skip)
 			continue;