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From: Dan Carpenter <error27@gmail.com>
To: Arend Van Spriel <arend@broadcom.com>
Cc: Vasanthakumar Thiagarajan <vasanth@atheros.com>,
	"linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org" <linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org>,
	"ath9k-devel@lists.ath9k.org" <ath9k-devel@lists.ath9k.org>
Subject: Re: smatch stuff: potential read past the end of the buffer
Date: Mon, 20 Dec 2010 15:42:17 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20101220124217.GU1936@bicker> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <400C43189542CE41BC0A5B252FC90136952F0594D7@SJEXCHCCR02.corp.ad.broadcom.com>

On Mon, Dec 20, 2010 at 02:16:56AM -0800, Arend Van Spriel wrote:
> Hi Dan,
> 
> Why not use min() function?
>     index = min(COMP_HDR_LEN + osize, 2046);
>     mchecksum = word[index] |
>                     (word[index + 1] << 8);
> 
> Or would smatch miss this in its analysis?

That would silence the warning, but is it the right fix?  I thought
maybe we should make word a larger buffer?

regards,
dan carpenter



  reply	other threads:[~2010-12-20 12:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-12-20  8:30 smatch stuff: potential read past the end of the buffer Dan Carpenter
2010-12-20  9:26 ` Senthil Balasubramanian
2010-12-20 10:16 ` Arend Van Spriel
2010-12-20 12:42   ` Dan Carpenter [this message]
2010-12-20 17:13     ` Arend Van Spriel
2010-12-21  7:29 ` Vasanthakumar Thiagarajan

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