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diff --git a/source/l/hal/patches/increase_HAL_PATH_MAX_to_4096.diff b/source/l/hal/patches/increase_HAL_PATH_MAX_to_4096.diff new file mode 100644 index 00000000..b4c770ae --- /dev/null +++ b/source/l/hal/patches/increase_HAL_PATH_MAX_to_4096.diff @@ -0,0 +1,30 @@ +commit a2c3dd5a04d79265772c09c4280606d5c2ed72c6 +Author: Martin Pitt <martin.pitt@ubuntu.com> +Date: Mon Jan 4 16:56:13 2010 +0100 + + Bump HAL_PATH_MAX to 4096 + + Some bits in the code use realpath() with destination paths of size + HAL_PATH_MAX. This potentially breaks on systems where PATH_MAX is bigger than + HAL_PATH_MAX (which was 512 until now). + + Since we can't use PATH_MAX directly (due to platforms like GNU/Hurd, which + apparently don't have it), just bump HAL_PATH_MAX to 4096 (as PATH_MAX is on + Linux), to avoid potential buffer overflows and also fix hal on Linux when + enabling FORTIFY in gcc. + + https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=25888 + +diff --git a/hald/util.h b/hald/util.h +index c2a1584..7883333 100644 +--- a/hald/util.h ++++ b/hald/util.h +@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ + #endif + + #define HAL_NAME_MAX 256 +-#define HAL_PATH_MAX 512 ++#define HAL_PATH_MAX 4096 + + gboolean hal_util_remove_trailing_slash (gchar *path); + |