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From: Darrick J. Wong on 22 Mar 2010 14:20
On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 02:49:20PM +0300, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> acpi_device_class can only be 19 characters and a NULL terminator.
>
> The current code has a buffer overflow in acpi_power_meter_add():
> strcpy(acpi_device_class(device), ACPI_POWER_METER_CLASS);
>
> Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <error27(a)gmail.com>
> ---
> Feel free to change the name to anything you like.

How hard would it be to increase the size of that buffer?

(Or, is there a need to have "_resource" in that string at all?)

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