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drivers/leds/leds-lp5521.c: fix potential buffer overflow

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The code doesn't check first sscanf() return value.  If first sscanf()
failed then c contains some garbage.  It might lead to reading
uninitialised stack data in the second sscanf() call.

Signed-off-by: Vasiliy Kulikov <segoon@openwall.com>
Cc: Richard Purdie <rpurdie@rpsys.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Vasiliy Kulikov 2011-01-12 16:59:14 -08:00 committed by Linus Torvalds
parent 6db26ffc91
commit 2260209c49
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@ -373,6 +373,8 @@ static int lp5521_do_store_load(struct lp5521_engine *engine,
while ((offset < len - 1) && (i < LP5521_PROGRAM_LENGTH)) {
/* separate sscanfs because length is working only for %s */
ret = sscanf(buf + offset, "%2s%n ", c, &nrchars);
if (ret != 2)
goto fail;
ret = sscanf(c, "%2x", &cmd);
if (ret != 1)
goto fail;