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From: Clemens Ladisch <clemens@ladisch.de>
To: Dan Carpenter <error27@gmail.com>
Cc: alsa-devel@alsa-project.org, Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>,
	kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org, Kyle McMartin <kyle@mcmartin.ca>,
	Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [patch] ALSA: rawmidi: cleanup the get next midi device ioctl
Date: Wed, 08 Sep 2010 09:40:16 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4C875A00.7030005@ladisch.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100908085308.GC32047@bicker>

Dan Carpenter wrote:
> I'm doing an audit to find integer overflows and my static checker
> complained that in the original code "device + 1" could overflow.  The
> overflow is harmless, but it's still worth cleaning up.  The other thing
> that I noticed is that if you pass in a device which is higher than
> SNDRV_RAWMIDI_DEVICES then it doesn't return an error code but just
> tells you that the next device is "device + 1".
> 
> I have rewritten it to just return -EINVAL if you pass in a bogus value
> that's either too high or too low.

A negative value is a valid input.

> +		if (device > SNDRV_RAWMIDI_DEVICES)
> +			return -EINVAL;

		if (device >= SNDRV_RAWMIDI_DEVICES)


Regards,
Clemens

  reply	other threads:[~2010-09-08  9:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-09-08  8:53 [patch] ALSA: rawmidi: cleanup the get next midi device ioctl Dan Carpenter
2010-09-08  9:40 ` Clemens Ladisch [this message]
2010-09-08 19:36 ` [patch v2] ALSA: rawmidi: fix " Dan Carpenter
2010-09-08 19:56   ` Takashi Iwai
2010-09-08 21:29     ` Jaroslav Kysela
2010-09-08 22:11       ` [patch v3] " Dan Carpenter
2010-09-09  7:07         ` Takashi Iwai
2010-09-09  8:36           ` Jaroslav Kysela
2010-09-09  7:23         ` walter harms
2010-09-09  6:57       ` [patch v2] " Takashi Iwai
2010-09-09  7:44   ` Clemens Ladisch
2010-09-09  8:46     ` Dan Carpenter

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