[3.13.y.z extended stable] Patch "ACPICA: utstring: Check array index bound before use." has been added to staging queue

[Kamal Mostafa]

This is a note to let you know that I have just added a patch titled

    ACPICA: utstring: Check array index bound before use.

to the linux-3.13.y-queue branch of the 3.13.y.z extended stable tree 
which can be found at:

 http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git?p=ubuntu/linux.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/linux-3.13.y-queue

This patch is scheduled to be released in version 3.13.11.5.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to this tree, please 
reply to this email.

For more information about the 3.13.y.z tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

Thanks.
-Kamal

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>From eec93bed6eccb21b9a997c15f5c7b9dabdc19bac Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: David Binderman <dcb314 at hotmail.com>
Date: Fri, 4 Apr 2014 12:36:55 +0800
Subject: ACPICA: utstring: Check array index bound before use.

commit 5d42b0fa25df7ef2f575107597c1aaebe2407d10 upstream.

ACPICA BZ 1077. David Binderman.

References: https://bugs.acpica.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1077
Signed-off-by: David Binderman <dcb314 at hotmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Bob Moore <robert.moore at intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Lv Zheng <lv.zheng at intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki at intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <kamal at canonical.com>
---
 drivers/acpi/acpica/utstring.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/acpi/acpica/utstring.c b/drivers/acpi/acpica/utstring.c
index 45c0eb2..cd2047a 100644
--- a/drivers/acpi/acpica/utstring.c
+++ b/drivers/acpi/acpica/utstring.c
@@ -353,7 +353,7 @@ void acpi_ut_print_string(char *string, u16 max_length)
 	}

 	acpi_os_printf("\"");
-	for (i = 0; string[i] && (i < max_length); i++) {
+	for (i = 0; (i < max_length) && string[i]; i++) {

 		/* Escape sequences */

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