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From: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>
To: Brian Norris <computersforpeace@gmail.com>,
	Artem Bityutskiy <dedekind1@gmail.com>
Cc: kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org, linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/5] UBI: fix check for "too many bytes"
Date: Thu, 26 Mar 2015 10:29:35 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5513D17F.2080309@nod.at> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1425119009-28634-5-git-send-email-computersforpeace@gmail.com>

Am 28.02.2015 um 11:23 schrieb Brian Norris:
> The comparison from the previous line seems to have been erroneously
> (partially) copied-and-pasted onto the next. The second line should be
> checking req.bytes, not req.lnum.
> 
> Coverity CID #139400
> 
> Signed-off-by: Brian Norris <computersforpeace@gmail.com>
> ---
>  drivers/mtd/ubi/cdev.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/mtd/ubi/cdev.c b/drivers/mtd/ubi/cdev.c
> index d647e504f9b1..7691a2a015cb 100644
> --- a/drivers/mtd/ubi/cdev.c
> +++ b/drivers/mtd/ubi/cdev.c
> @@ -455,7 +455,7 @@ static long vol_cdev_ioctl(struct file *file, unsigned int cmd,
>  		/* Validate the request */
>  		err = -EINVAL;
>  		if (req.lnum < 0 || req.lnum >= vol->reserved_pebs ||
> -		    req.bytes < 0 || req.lnum >= vol->usable_leb_size)
> +		    req.bytes < 0 || req.bytes >= vol->usable_leb_size)
>  			break;

Testing uncovered an issue with that.
The comparison should be "req.bytes > vol->usable_leb_size" as
we're allowed to write with usable_leb_size.
There is no need to re-send, I'll fix the patch myself.

Thanks,
//richard

  reply	other threads:[~2015-03-26  9:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-02-28 10:23 [PATCH 0/5] UBI: Coverity-inspired fixes Brian Norris
2015-02-28 10:23 ` [PATCH 1/5] UBI: account for bitflips in both the VID header and data Brian Norris
2015-02-28 10:23 ` [PATCH 2/5] UBI: fix out of bounds write Brian Norris
2015-02-28 10:23 ` [PATCH 3/5] UBI: initialize LEB number variable Brian Norris
2015-02-28 10:23 ` [PATCH 4/5] UBI: fix check for "too many bytes" Brian Norris
2015-03-26  9:29   ` Richard Weinberger [this message]
2015-02-28 10:23 ` [PATCH 5/5] UBI: align comment for readability Brian Norris
2015-03-05 10:33 ` [PATCH 0/5] UBI: Coverity-inspired fixes Richard Weinberger
2015-03-06  2:04   ` Brian Norris
2015-03-26  9:11     ` Richard Weinberger

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