From b7fcb5c4a4c27da2f6d86cb03d18687e537442cf Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Bob Copeland <me@bobcopeland.com>
Date: Mon, 27 Apr 2009 22:12:43 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] ath5k: fix buffer overrun in rate debug code
char bname[5] is too small for the string "X GHz" when the null
terminator is taken into account. Thus, turning on rate debugging
can crash unless we have lucky stack alignment.
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Reported-by: Paride Legovini <legovini@spiro.fisica.unipd.it>
Signed-off-by: Bob Copeland <me@bobcopeland.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
---
drivers/net/wireless/ath5k/debug.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/ath5k/debug.c b/drivers/net/wireless/ath5k/debug.c
index 9770bb3d40f9..4904a07e4b59 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/ath5k/debug.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/ath5k/debug.c
@@ -424,7 +424,7 @@ ath5k_debug_dump_bands(struct ath5k_softc *sc)
for (b = 0; b < IEEE80211_NUM_BANDS; b++) {
struct ieee80211_supported_band *band = &sc->sbands[b];
- char bname[5];
+ char bname[6];
switch (band->band) {
case IEEE80211_BAND_2GHZ:
strcpy(bname, "2 GHz");
--
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