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From: Kalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org>
To: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
Cc: Amitkumar Karwar <akarwar@marvell.com>,
	Nishant Sarmukadam <nishants@marvell.com>,
	linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [v2] mwifiex: fix mwifiex_rdeeprom_read()
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 2015 08:09:08 +0000 (UTC)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150929080908.CC1F813F7C4@smtp.codeaurora.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20150921161953.GQ5004@mwanda>


> There were several bugs here.
> 
> 1)  The done label was in the wrong place so we didn't copy any
>     information out when there was no command given.
> 
> 2)  We were using PAGE_SIZE as the size of the buffer instead of
>     "PAGE_SIZE - pos".
> 
> 3)  snprintf() returns the number of characters that would have been
>     printed if there were enough space.  If there was not enough space
>     (and we had fixed the memory corruption bug #2) then it would result
>     in an information leak when we do simple_read_from_buffer().  I've
>     changed it to use scnprintf() instead.
> 
> I also removed the initialization at the start of the function, because
> I thought it made the code a little more clear.
> 
> Fixes: 5e6e3a92b9a4 ('wireless: mwifiex: initial commit for Marvell mwifiex driver')
> Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
> Acked-by: Amitkumar Karwar <akarwar@marvell.com>

Thanks, applied to wireless-drivers-next.git.

Kalle Valo

      parent reply	other threads:[~2015-09-29  8:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-08-20 10:30 [patch] mwifiex: fix mwifiex_rdeeprom_read() Dan Carpenter
2015-08-25  6:56 ` Amitkumar Karwar
2015-08-25 12:29 ` Kalle Valo
2015-09-21 16:19   ` [patch v2] " Dan Carpenter
2015-09-22 10:58     ` Amitkumar Karwar
2015-09-29  8:09     ` Kalle Valo [this message]

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