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From: walter harms <wharms@bfs.de>
To: Cyril Roelandt <tipecaml@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org,
	Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net, florian.c.schilhabel@googlemail.com,
	gregkh@linuxfoundation.org, yongjun_wei@trendmicro.com.cn,
	jim.cromie@gmail.com, marcos.souza.org@gmail.com,
	devel@driverdev.osuosl.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] staging: rtl8712: avoid a useless call to memset().
Date: Wed, 05 Dec 2012 08:12:57 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <50BF0209.9080207@bfs.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1354670522-27144-1-git-send-email-tipecaml@gmail.com>

Hi Cyril,
you patch is correct ..but being an advocate of defensive programming
i would say the original version especially since the number of bytes is small.

re,
 wh

Am 05.12.2012 02:22, schrieb Cyril Roelandt:
> In r8711_wx_get_wap(), make sure we do not call memcpy() on a memory area that
> has just been zeroed by a call to memset().
> 
> Signed-off-by: Cyril Roelandt <tipecaml@gmail.com>
> ---
>  drivers/staging/rtl8712/rtl871x_ioctl_linux.c |    3 ++-
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/staging/rtl8712/rtl871x_ioctl_linux.c b/drivers/staging/rtl8712/rtl871x_ioctl_linux.c
> index 3a64790..2c73319 100644
> --- a/drivers/staging/rtl8712/rtl871x_ioctl_linux.c
> +++ b/drivers/staging/rtl8712/rtl871x_ioctl_linux.c
> @@ -1131,10 +1131,11 @@ static int r8711_wx_get_wap(struct net_device *dev,
>  	struct ndis_wlan_bssid_ex *pcur_bss = &pmlmepriv->cur_network.network;
>  
>  	wrqu->ap_addr.sa_family = ARPHRD_ETHER;
> -	memset(wrqu->ap_addr.sa_data, 0, ETH_ALEN);
>  	if (check_fwstate(pmlmepriv, _FW_LINKED |
>  	    WIFI_ADHOC_MASTER_STATE|WIFI_AP_STATE)) {
>  		memcpy(wrqu->ap_addr.sa_data, pcur_bss->MacAddress, ETH_ALEN);
> +	} else {
> +		memset(wrqu->ap_addr.sa_data, 0, ETH_ALEN);
>  	}
>  	return 0;
>  }

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From: walter harms <wharms@bfs.de>
To: Cyril Roelandt <tipecaml@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org,
	Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net, florian.c.schilhabel@googlemail.com,
	gregkh@linuxfoundation.org, yongjun_wei@trendmicro.com.cn,
	jim.cromie@gmail.com, marcos.souza.org@gmail.com,
	devel@driverdev.osuosl.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] staging: rtl8712: avoid a useless call to memset().
Date: Wed, 05 Dec 2012 09:12:57 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <50BF0209.9080207@bfs.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1354670522-27144-1-git-send-email-tipecaml@gmail.com>

Hi Cyril,
you patch is correct ..but being an advocate of defensive programming
i would say the original version especially since the number of bytes is small.

re,
 wh

Am 05.12.2012 02:22, schrieb Cyril Roelandt:
> In r8711_wx_get_wap(), make sure we do not call memcpy() on a memory area that
> has just been zeroed by a call to memset().
> 
> Signed-off-by: Cyril Roelandt <tipecaml@gmail.com>
> ---
>  drivers/staging/rtl8712/rtl871x_ioctl_linux.c |    3 ++-
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/staging/rtl8712/rtl871x_ioctl_linux.c b/drivers/staging/rtl8712/rtl871x_ioctl_linux.c
> index 3a64790..2c73319 100644
> --- a/drivers/staging/rtl8712/rtl871x_ioctl_linux.c
> +++ b/drivers/staging/rtl8712/rtl871x_ioctl_linux.c
> @@ -1131,10 +1131,11 @@ static int r8711_wx_get_wap(struct net_device *dev,
>  	struct ndis_wlan_bssid_ex *pcur_bss = &pmlmepriv->cur_network.network;
>  
>  	wrqu->ap_addr.sa_family = ARPHRD_ETHER;
> -	memset(wrqu->ap_addr.sa_data, 0, ETH_ALEN);
>  	if (check_fwstate(pmlmepriv, _FW_LINKED |
>  	    WIFI_ADHOC_MASTER_STATE|WIFI_AP_STATE)) {
>  		memcpy(wrqu->ap_addr.sa_data, pcur_bss->MacAddress, ETH_ALEN);
> +	} else {
> +		memset(wrqu->ap_addr.sa_data, 0, ETH_ALEN);
>  	}
>  	return 0;
>  }

  parent reply	other threads:[~2012-12-05  8:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-12-05  1:22 [PATCH] staging: rtl8712: avoid a useless call to memset() Cyril Roelandt
2012-12-05  1:22 ` Cyril Roelandt
2012-12-05  4:07 ` Larry Finger
2012-12-05  4:07   ` Larry Finger
2012-12-05  7:11 ` Dan Carpenter
2012-12-05  7:11   ` Dan Carpenter
2012-12-09  0:31   ` Cyril Roelandt
2012-12-09  0:31     ` Cyril Roelandt
2012-12-10  8:55     ` Dan Carpenter
2012-12-10  8:55       ` Dan Carpenter
2012-12-05  8:12 ` walter harms [this message]
2012-12-05  8:12   ` walter harms

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