[Patch 3/4]: Rewrite of the alpha-vms bfd back-end (ld)

Tristan Gingold gingold@adacore.com
Wed Apr 14 09:30:00 GMT 2010


On Apr 13, 2010, at 7:00 PM, Nick Clifton wrote:

> Hi Tristan,
> 
>>>> +  string = (char *) xmalloc (strlen (search->name)
>>>> +			     + strlen (entry->filename)
>>>> +			     + sizeof "/.exe");
>>>> +
>>>> +  sprintf (string, "%s/%s.exe", search->name, entry->filename);
>>> 
>>> What about the zero-terminator for the string ?  Ie this looks like a possible memory corruption bug to me.
>> 
>> Isn't sizeof ("./exe") == 6 (ie, strlen + 1) ?
> 
> Mea culpa.  You're right.  Patch approved.

Thanks, committed.

Tristan.



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