From: Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org>
To: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
Cc: "Gustavo F. Padovan" <padovan@profusion.mobi>,
linux-bluetooth@vger.kernel.org, kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch] Bluetooth: change min_t() cast in hci_reassembly()
Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2012 08:20:30 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1330446030.3392.80.camel@aeonflux> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120228065759.GD20506@elgon.mountain>
Hi Dan,
> "count" is type int so the cast to __u16 truncates the high bits away
> and triggers a Smatch static checker warning. It looks like a high
> value of count could cause a forever loop, but I didn't follow it
> through to see if count is capped somewhere.
>
> Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
>
> diff --git a/net/bluetooth/hci_core.c b/net/bluetooth/hci_core.c
> index e6cbb8a..db484a8 100644
> --- a/net/bluetooth/hci_core.c
> +++ b/net/bluetooth/hci_core.c
> @@ -1966,7 +1966,7 @@ static int hci_reassembly(struct hci_dev *hdev, int type, void *data,
>
> while (count) {
> scb = (void *) skb->cb;
> - len = min_t(__u16, scb->expect, count);
this is a good idea since essentially packets are max u16.
Acked-by: Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org>
Regards
Marcel
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-02-28 16:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-02-28 6:57 [patch] Bluetooth: change min_t() cast in hci_reassembly() Dan Carpenter
2012-02-28 16:20 ` Marcel Holtmann [this message]
2012-03-01 1:40 ` Johan Hedberg
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