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From: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
To: aybuke.147@gmail.com
Cc: Hartmut Knaack <knaack.h@gmx.de>,
	Lars-Peter Clausen <lars@metafoo.de>,
	Peter Meerwald <pmeerw@pmeerw.net>,
	linux-iio@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: staging: iio: accel: Use __be16 instead of u16
Date: Fri, 7 Aug 2015 13:47:18 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150807104718.GH5096@mwanda> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20150715193650.GA28245@mwanda>

Ping!

regards,
dan carpenter

On Wed, Jul 15, 2015 at 10:36:51PM +0300, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> Hello Aybuke Ozdemir,
> 
> The patch 03c6eaa37ad7: "staging: iio: accel: Use __be16 instead of
> u16" from Sep 28, 2014, leads to the following static checker warning:
> 
> 	drivers/staging/iio/accel/sca3000_ring.c:120 sca3000_read_first_n_hw_rb()
> 	warn: potential pointer math issue ('rx' is a 16 bit pointer)
> 
> drivers/staging/iio/accel/sca3000_ring.c
>    107           */
>    108          if (count > num_available * bytes_per_sample)
>    109                  num_read = num_available*bytes_per_sample;
>    110          else
>    111                  num_read = count;
>    112  
>    113          ret = sca3000_read_data(st,
>    114                                  SCA3000_REG_ADDR_RING_OUT,
>    115                                  &rx, num_read);
>    116          if (ret)
>    117                  goto error_ret;
>    118  
>    119          for (i = 0; i < num_read; i++)
>    120                  *(((u16 *)rx) + i) = be16_to_cpup((__be16 *)rx + i);
>                           ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> 
> We're writing beyond the end of the array here because of the pointer
> math issue.  The fix is probably to say:
> 
> 		for (i = 0; i < num_read / sizeof(u16); i++)
> 			*(((u16 *)rx) + i) = be16_to_cpup((__be16 *)rx + i);
> 
>    121  
>    122          if (copy_to_user(buf, rx, num_read))
>    123                  ret = -EFAULT;
> 
> 
> regards,
> dan carpenter

  reply	other threads:[~2015-08-07 10:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-07-15 19:36 staging: iio: accel: Use __be16 instead of u16 Dan Carpenter
2015-08-07 10:47 ` Dan Carpenter [this message]
2015-08-07 10:59 ` Daniel Baluta
2015-08-07 11:27   ` Dan Carpenter
2015-08-07 11:38     ` Lars-Peter Clausen

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