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From: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
To: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Cc: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>,
	Jes Sorensen <Jes.Sorensen@redhat.com>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
	linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, devel@driverdev.osuosl.org,
	kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch] staging: rtl8723au: incorrect use of ether_addr_copy()
Date: Wed, 8 Oct 2014 15:46:31 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20141008124631.GC26918@mwanda> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1412771171.3438.25.camel@joe-AO725>

On Wed, Oct 08, 2014 at 05:26:11AM -0700, Joe Perches wrote:
> On Wed, 2014-10-08 at 13:40 +0300, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> > The return from myid() isn't aligned correctly for ether_addr_copy().
> 
> Hey Dan.
> 
> Actual evidence showing ether_addr_copy conversions
> may not always be wise.
> 
> How did you find them?

I was just trying to see how common these kinds of bugs are.  It didn't
take long to find, but my impression is that they are rare and I got
lucky.  These kinds of bugs are tricky to find and we don't have any
tools for it.

regards,
dan carpenter


  reply	other threads:[~2014-10-08 12:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-10-08 10:40 [patch] staging: rtl8723au: incorrect use of ether_addr_copy() Dan Carpenter
2014-10-08 12:26 ` Joe Perches
2014-10-08 12:46   ` Dan Carpenter [this message]
2014-10-08 12:50     ` Julia Lawall
2014-10-08 13:17       ` Dan Carpenter
2014-10-08 14:22     ` Joe Perches
2014-10-08 14:33       ` Jes Sorensen
2014-10-08 14:51         ` Joe Perches
2014-10-08 15:09           ` Jes Sorensen
2014-10-08 13:59 ` Jes Sorensen
2014-10-08 14:24   ` Dan Carpenter
2014-10-08 14:32     ` Jes Sorensen

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