modpost: file2alias: define size of alias

The size of the variable alias provided to do_entry functions are
currently not readily available. Thus hindering do_entry functions to
perform bounds checking.

Define the macro ALIAS_SIZE containing the size of the variable alias.

Signed-off-by: Mattias Jacobsson <2pi@mok.nu>
Acked-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>
Signed-off-by: Darren Hart (VMware) <dvhart@infradead.org>

diff --git a/scripts/mod/file2alias.c b/scripts/mod/file2alias.c
index a37af7d..afe22af 100644 (file)
--- a/scripts/mod/file2alias.c
+++ b/scripts/mod/file2alias.c
@@ -50,6 +50,9 @@ struct devtable {
        int (*do_entry)(const char *filename, void *symval, char *alias);
 };
 
+/* Size of alias provided to do_entry functions */
+#define ALIAS_SIZE 500
+
 /* Define a variable f that holds the value of field f of struct devid
  * based at address m.
  */
@@ -1303,7 +1306,7 @@ static void do_table(void *symval, unsigned long size,
                     struct module *mod)
 {
        unsigned int i;
-       char alias[500];
+       char alias[ALIAS_SIZE];
 
        device_id_check(mod->name, device_id, size, id_size, symval);
        /* Leave last one: it's the terminator. */