Re: [PATCH] Buffer overflow in devclass_add_device()

In message: <[email protected]>
            Attilio Rao <[email protected]> writes:
: A buffer overflow is possible in devclass_add_device().
: More specifically, the dev nameunit construction is based on the
: assumption that the unit linked with the device is invariant but that
: can change when calling devclass_alloc_unit() (because -1 is passed
: or, more simply, because the unit choosen is beyond the table limits).
: This results in a buffer overflow if the bug is too short on the
: second snprintf().
: This patch should fix it:
: http://www.freebsd.org/~attilio/Sandvine/STABLE_8/subr_bus/subr_bus.diff
: 
: aiming for the max possible number of digits necessary.
: This bug has been found by Sandvine Incorporated.
: Please reivew.

I don't see a problem with it, except you'd want -INT_MAX to be
paranoid, since it is one character longer (or just add 1) :)

However, it might be better to just allocate strlen(dc->name) +
log10(INT_MAX) + 2 and not have snprintf do that calculation.  But it
doesn't look like there's a compile-time constant for that...

Warner
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