From: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
To: Fariya <fariyaf@gmail.com>
Cc: kbuild@01.org, linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [kbuild-all] [wireless-next:master 316/316] drivers/net/wireless/rsi/rsi_91x_debugfs.c:296 rsi_init_dbgfs() error: potential null dereference 'dev_dbgfs'. (kzalloc returns null)
Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2014 12:01:27 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140328090126.GC7045@mwanda> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAG+h2qigvA+yfPt9iRv6eZCLppwFznuZ=Hdk5Yxr-EB_9WTQig@mail.gmail.com>
On Fri, Mar 28, 2014 at 07:51:25AM +0530, Fariya wrote:
> Hi Dan,
>
> Do I need to re-send the whole of the driver again? Considering the driver
> is a part of wireless-next, shall I check-out the wireless-next git repo
> and create a patch for the mentioned fixes and send it across?
The latter. Do it on top of wireles-next.
>
> > *The code for this one is: transfer = min_t(int, count, 4096); It's
> > complaining because "tranfers" is u8, but the cast to int always makes me
> > worry negative values. In this case, count is not user controlled so it's
> > safe. But that's a common security problem you should be aware of. It's
> > better to cast it to an unsigned value.*
>
> >Shall I typecast the return value of min_t to u8?
No. That would do a truncate to 8 bits before the compare. Cast it to
u32 first.
regards,
dan carpenter
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[not found] ` <20140327154507.GA27177@mwanda>
2014-03-27 16:01 ` [kbuild-all] [wireless-next:master 316/316] drivers/net/wireless/rsi/rsi_91x_debugfs.c:296 rsi_init_dbgfs() error: potential null dereference 'dev_dbgfs'. (kzalloc returns null) Dan Carpenter
[not found] ` <CAG+h2qigvA+yfPt9iRv6eZCLppwFznuZ=Hdk5Yxr-EB_9WTQig@mail.gmail.com>
2014-03-28 9:01 ` Dan Carpenter [this message]
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