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From: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
To: Jean-Francois Moine <moinejf@free.fr>
Cc: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@infradead.org>,
	linux-media@vger.kernel.org, kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch] [media] gspca: passing wrong length parameter to reg_w()
Date: Wed, 02 May 2012 07:05:07 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120502070507.GO6447@mwanda> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120502084758.1a08823f@tele>

On Wed, May 02, 2012 at 08:47:58AM +0200, Jean-Francois Moine wrote:
> Thanks for the patch. The bug is very very old (6 years, at least -
> neither have I such a webcam).
> 

My guess is that it's harmless to write a few extra garbage bits,
but it's still worth fixing as a cleanup.

> Maybe the fix could have been
> 
> 	reg_w(gspca_dev, 0x0010, reg10, sizeof reg10);
> 
> but it is OK for me.
> 
> Acked-by: Jean-Francois Moine <http://moinejf.free.fr>

Thanks.

regards,
dan carpenter


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From: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
To: Jean-Francois Moine <moinejf@free.fr>
Cc: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@infradead.org>,
	linux-media@vger.kernel.org, kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch] [media] gspca: passing wrong length parameter to reg_w()
Date: Wed, 2 May 2012 10:05:07 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120502070507.GO6447@mwanda> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120502084758.1a08823f@tele>

On Wed, May 02, 2012 at 08:47:58AM +0200, Jean-Francois Moine wrote:
> Thanks for the patch. The bug is very very old (6 years, at least -
> neither have I such a webcam).
> 

My guess is that it's harmless to write a few extra garbage bits,
but it's still worth fixing as a cleanup.

> Maybe the fix could have been
> 
> 	reg_w(gspca_dev, 0x0010, reg10, sizeof reg10);
> 
> but it is OK for me.
> 
> Acked-by: Jean-Francois Moine <http://moinejf.free.fr>

Thanks.

regards,
dan carpenter


  reply	other threads:[~2012-05-02  7:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-05-02  6:15 [patch] [media] gspca: passing wrong length parameter to reg_w() Dan Carpenter
2012-05-02  6:15 ` Dan Carpenter
2012-05-02  6:47 ` Jean-Francois Moine
2012-05-02  6:47   ` Jean-Francois Moine
2012-05-02  7:05   ` Dan Carpenter [this message]
2012-05-02  7:05     ` Dan Carpenter

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