From: Luciano Coelho <coelho@ti.com>
To: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
Cc: Arik Nemtsov <arik@wizery.com>,
"John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>,
linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Subject: re: wl12xx: support up to 8 stations in AP-mode
Date: Wed, 21 Sep 2011 10:25:00 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1316589900.2157.392.camel@cumari> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110921070525.GD4999@elgon.mountain>
On Wed, 2011-09-21 at 00:05 -0700, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> Hi Arik,
>
> Smatch complains about c47e8229fa56 "wl12xx: support up to 8 stations
> in AP-mode"
>
> drivers/net/wireless/wl12xx/main.c +832 wl12xx_irq_update_links_status(22)
> error: buffer overflow 'status->tx_lnk_free_pkts' 8 <= 10
>
> 828 for (hlid = WL1271_AP_STA_HLID_START; hlid < AP_MAX_LINKS; hlid++) {
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^
> We increased this to 11.
>
> 829 if (!wl1271_is_active_sta(wl, hlid))
> 830 continue;
> 831
> 832 cnt = status->tx_lnk_free_pkts[hlid] -
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>
> But the ->tx_lnk_free_pkts[] array still only has 8 elements so we're
> reading past the end of the array.
>
> 833 wl->links[hlid].prev_freed_pkts;
> 834
> 835 wl->links[hlid].prev_freed_pkts =
> 836 status->tx_lnk_free_pkts[hlid];
> 837 wl->links[hlid].allocated_pkts -= cnt;
> 838
> 839 wl12xx_irq_ps_regulate_link(wl, hlid,
> 840 wl->links[hlid].allocated_pkts);
> 841 }
Good catch, Dan! Thanks for checking this.
I checked our new firmware API and it seems that the wl12xx_fw_status
structure has changed. Now, WL12XX_MAX_LINKS, should be 12 instead of
8.
Arik, can you verify this and send a fix patch?
--
Cheers,
Luca.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-09-21 7:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-09-21 7:05 wl12xx: support up to 8 stations in AP-mode Dan Carpenter
2011-09-21 7:25 ` Luciano Coelho [this message]
2011-09-22 5:29 ` Arik Nemtsov
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