e100, e1000, ixgb: Fix an impossible memory overwrite bug
We keep getting requests from people that think that this might be
an exploitable hole where we would overwrite 4 bytes in the netdev
struct if the pci name would exceed 15 characters. In reality this
will never happen but we fix it anyway.
Signed-off-by: Auke Kok <auke-jan.h.kok@intel.com>
diff --git a/drivers/net/ixgb/ixgb_main.c b/drivers/net/ixgb/ixgb_main.c
index a88c2b8..fb4c1ad 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ixgb/ixgb_main.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ixgb/ixgb_main.c
@@ -437,7 +437,7 @@
netdev->poll_controller = ixgb_netpoll;
#endif
- strcpy(netdev->name, pci_name(pdev));
+ strncpy(netdev->name, pci_name(pdev), sizeof(netdev->name) - 1);
netdev->mem_start = mmio_start;
netdev->mem_end = mmio_start + mmio_len;
netdev->base_addr = adapter->hw.io_base;