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From: Kalle Valo <kvalo@qca.qualcomm.com>
To: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@gmail.com>
Cc: Sebastian Gottschall <s.gottschall@dd-wrt.com>,
	"linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org" <linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ath10k: fix recent bandwidth conversion bug
Date: Mon, 20 Nov 2017 11:57:21 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87tvxpf9i8.fsf@kamboji.qca.qualcomm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1666282.PC3nhpCf9f@debian64> (Christian Lamparter's message of "Thu, 02 Nov 2017 20:34:06 +0100")

Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@gmail.com> writes:

> On Wednesday, November 1, 2017 9:37:53 PM CET Sebastian Gottschall wrote:
>> a additional array bounds check would be good
>
> Ah, about that:
>
> the bw variable in ath10k_htt_rx_h_rates() is extracted from info2
> in the following way [0]:
> |	bw =3D info2 & 3;
>
> the txrate.bw variable in ath10k_update_per_peer_tx_stats() is set by [1]=
:
> |	txrate.bw =3D ATH10K_HW_BW(peer_stats->flags);
>
> ATH10K_HW_BW is a macro defined as [2]:
> |	#define ATH10K_HW_BW(flags)		(((flags) >> 3) & 0x3)
>
> In both cases the bandwidth values already are limited to 0-3 by
> the "and 3" operation.

Until someone changes that part of the code (and the firmware
interface). IMHO a switch is safer as there we don't have any risk of
out of bands access.

--=20
Kalle Valo=

  parent reply	other threads:[~2017-11-20 11:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-11-01 20:01 [PATCH] ath10k: fix recent bandwidth conversion bug Christian Lamparter
2017-11-01 20:36 ` Sebastian Gottschall
2017-11-01 20:37 ` Sebastian Gottschall
2017-11-02 19:34   ` Christian Lamparter
2017-11-02 21:08     ` Sebastian Gottschall
2017-11-13  8:53       ` Johannes Berg
2017-11-20 11:57     ` Kalle Valo [this message]
2017-11-20 17:05       ` Christian Lamparter
2017-12-14 13:21         ` Kalle Valo
2018-03-01 11:52           ` Rafał Miłecki
2018-03-11  7:12             ` Kalle Valo
2018-03-11 21:01               ` Rafał Miłecki
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2018-03-10 12:20 Anilkumar Kolli

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