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This function contains multiple bugs after the following commits: -ac55182899("modpost: i2c aliases need no trailing wildcard") -6543becf26("mod/file2alias: make modalias generation safe for cross compiling") Commitac55182899inserted the following code to do_eisa_entry(): else strcat(alias, "*"); This is incorrect because 'alias' is uninitialized. If it is not NULL-terminated, strcat() could cause a buffer overrun. Even if 'alias' happens to be zero-filled, it would output: MODULE_ALIAS("*"); This would match anything. As a result, the module could be loaded by any unrelated uevent from an unrelated subsystem. Commitac55182899introduced another bug. Prior to that commit, the conditional check was: if (eisa->sig[0]) This checked if the first character of eisa_device_id::sig was not '\0'. However, commitac55182899changed it as follows: if (sig[0]) sig[0] is NOT the first character of the eisa_device_id::sig. The type of 'sig' is 'char (*)[8]', meaning that the type of 'sig[0]' is 'char [8]' instead of 'char'. 'sig[0]' and 'symval' refer to the same address, which never becomes NULL. The correct conversion would have been: if ((*sig)[0]) However, this if-conditional was meaningless because the earlier change in commit ac551828993e was incorrect. This commit removes the entire incorrect code, which should never have been executed. Fixes:ac55182899("modpost: i2c aliases need no trailing wildcard") Fixes:6543becf26("mod/file2alias: make modalias generation safe for cross compiling") Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
Linux kernel
============
There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the reStructuredText markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.