Re: [PATCH 1/1] staging: fix a potential infinite loop

[Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

On Tue, May 17, 2022 at 05:58:09PM +0800, Yuanjun Gong wrote:
> From: Gong Yuanjun <ruc_gongyuanjun@163.com>
> 
> In the for-loop in _rtl92e_update_rxcounts(),
> i is a u8 counter while priv->rtllib->LinkDetectInfo.SlotNum is
> a u16 num, there is a potential infinite loop if SlotNum is larger
> than u8_max.
> 
> Change the u8 loop counter i into u16.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Gong Yuanjun <ruc_gongyuanjun@163.com>
> ---
>  drivers/staging/rtl8192e/rtl8192e/rtl_core.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/staging/rtl8192e/rtl8192e/rtl_core.c b/drivers/staging/rtl8192e/rtl8192e/rtl_core.c
> index b9ce71848023..3c5082abc583 100644
> --- a/drivers/staging/rtl8192e/rtl8192e/rtl_core.c
> +++ b/drivers/staging/rtl8192e/rtl8192e/rtl_core.c
> @@ -1342,7 +1342,7 @@ static void _rtl92e_update_rxcounts(struct r8192_priv *priv, u32 *TotalRxBcnNum,
>  				    u32 *TotalRxDataNum)
>  {
>  	u16	SlotIndex;
> -	u8	i;
> +	u16	i;
>  
>  	*TotalRxBcnNum = 0;
>  	*TotalRxDataNum = 0;
> -- 
> 2.17.1
> 

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