From: Vasanthakumar Thiagarajan <vthiagar@qca.qualcomm.com>
To: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Cc: Kalle Valo <kvalo@qca.qualcomm.com>,
<linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org>, <ath6kl-devel@qualcomm.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] ath6kl: Remove few deadcode in main.c
Date: Tue, 3 Jan 2012 15:05:34 +0530 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120103093532.GA17369@chvasanth-lnx> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1325578370.3905.3.camel@jlt3.sipsolutions.net>
On Tue, Jan 03, 2012 at 09:12:50AM +0100, Johannes Berg wrote:
> On Tue, 2012-01-03 at 11:10 +0530, Vasanthakumar Thiagarajan wrote:
>
> > > > @@ -62,8 +62,7 @@ static void ath6kl_add_new_sta(struct ath6kl *ar, u8 *mac, u16 aid, u8 *wpaie,
> > > >
> > > > sta = &ar->sta_list[free_slot];
> > > > memcpy(sta->mac, mac, ETH_ALEN);
> > > > - if (ielen <= ATH6KL_MAX_IE)
> > > > - memcpy(sta->wpa_ie, wpaie, ielen);
> > > > + memcpy(sta->wpa_ie, wpaie, ielen);
> >
> > >
> > > And then someone changes the u8 ielen to something else and accidentally
> > > adds a bug. I would prefer to have an explicit check for the ielen to
> > > make it obvious what's the maximum length.
> > >
> > > I don't really like using u8 for ielen either. IMHO size_t or similar
> > > would be better.
> >
> > The length of any IE is 1 byte, u8 is the appropriate one.
>
> No -- this can contain multiple IEs.
Right, it can, but as of now this is any one these ies, wpa, wapi, wpa/wpa2.
Ok, i don't see any disadvantage in converting this u8 to size_t,
i'll send the next version.
Vasanth
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-01-03 9:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-12-29 10:35 [PATCH 1/3] ath6kl: Remove few unnecessary spin_locks around set_bit() Vasanthakumar Thiagarajan
2011-12-29 10:35 ` [PATCH 2/3] ath6kl: Add a module parameter to enable uart debug Vasanthakumar Thiagarajan
2011-12-29 10:35 ` [PATCH 3/3] ath6kl: Remove few deadcode in main.c Vasanthakumar Thiagarajan
2012-01-02 16:33 ` Kalle Valo
2012-01-03 5:40 ` Vasanthakumar Thiagarajan
2012-01-03 8:12 ` Johannes Berg
2012-01-03 9:35 ` Vasanthakumar Thiagarajan [this message]
2012-01-02 16:35 ` [PATCH 1/3] ath6kl: Remove few unnecessary spin_locks around set_bit() Kalle Valo
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