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Alan Cox committed ad9798967dd
6pack: fix buffer length mishandling Dmitry Vyukov wrote: > different runs). Looking at code, the following looks suspicious -- we > limit copy by 512 bytes, but use the original count which can be > larger than 512: > > static void sixpack_receive_buf(struct tty_struct *tty, > const unsigned char *cp, char *fp, int count) > { > unsigned char buf[512]; > .... > memcpy(buf, cp, count < sizeof(buf) ? count : sizeof(buf)); > .... > sixpack_decode(sp, buf, count1); With the sane tty locking we now have I believe the following is safe as we consume the bytes and move them into the decoded buffer before returning. Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>