From: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@googlemail.com>
To: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
Cc: "John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>,
linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch] p54: potential signedness issue in p54_parse_rssical()
Date: Sun, 02 Dec 2012 13:54:56 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <201212021454.57147.chunkeey@googlemail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20121202103609.GA16078@elgon.mountain>
On Sunday 02 December 2012 11:36:09 Dan Carpenter wrote:
> "entries" is unsigned here, so it is never less than zero. In theory,
> len could be less than offset so I have added a check for that.
>
> Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
Acked-by: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@googlemail.com>
> diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/p54/eeprom.c b/drivers/net/wireless/p54/eeprom.c
> index 1ef1bfe..d43e374 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/wireless/p54/eeprom.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/p54/eeprom.c
> @@ -541,8 +541,9 @@ static int p54_parse_rssical(struct ieee80211_hw *dev,
> entries = (len - offset) /
> sizeof(struct pda_rssi_cal_ext_entry);
>
> - if ((len - offset) % sizeof(struct pda_rssi_cal_ext_entry) ||
> - entries <= 0) {
> + if (len < offset ||
> + (len - offset) % sizeof(struct pda_rssi_cal_ext_entry) ||
> + entries = 0) {
> wiphy_err(dev->wiphy, "invalid rssi database.\n");
> goto err_data;
> }
>
WARNING: multiple messages have this Message-ID (diff)
From: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@googlemail.com>
To: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
Cc: "John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>,
linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch] p54: potential signedness issue in p54_parse_rssical()
Date: Sun, 2 Dec 2012 14:54:56 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <201212021454.57147.chunkeey@googlemail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20121202103609.GA16078@elgon.mountain>
On Sunday 02 December 2012 11:36:09 Dan Carpenter wrote:
> "entries" is unsigned here, so it is never less than zero. In theory,
> len could be less than offset so I have added a check for that.
>
> Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
Acked-by: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@googlemail.com>
> diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/p54/eeprom.c b/drivers/net/wireless/p54/eeprom.c
> index 1ef1bfe..d43e374 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/wireless/p54/eeprom.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/p54/eeprom.c
> @@ -541,8 +541,9 @@ static int p54_parse_rssical(struct ieee80211_hw *dev,
> entries = (len - offset) /
> sizeof(struct pda_rssi_cal_ext_entry);
>
> - if ((len - offset) % sizeof(struct pda_rssi_cal_ext_entry) ||
> - entries <= 0) {
> + if (len < offset ||
> + (len - offset) % sizeof(struct pda_rssi_cal_ext_entry) ||
> + entries == 0) {
> wiphy_err(dev->wiphy, "invalid rssi database.\n");
> goto err_data;
> }
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-12-02 13:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-12-02 10:36 [patch] p54: potential signedness issue in p54_parse_rssical() Dan Carpenter
2012-12-02 10:36 ` Dan Carpenter
2012-12-02 13:54 ` Christian Lamparter [this message]
2012-12-02 13:54 ` Christian Lamparter
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