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From: Eric Sesterhenn <snakebyte@gmx.de>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: gregkh@suse.de
Subject: [Patch] Off by one in drivers/usb/serial/usb-serial.c
Date: Wed, 21 Jun 2006 23:28:17 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1150925298.24697.2.camel@alice> (raw)

hi,

this fixes coverity id #554. since serial table
is defines as serial_table[SERIAL_TTY_MINORS] we
should make sure we dont acess with an index
of SERIAL_TTY_MINORS.

Signed-off-by: Eric Sesterhenn <snakebyte@gmx.de>

--- linux-2.6.17-git2/drivers/usb/serial/usb-serial.c.orig	2006-06-21 23:24:07.000000000 +0200
+++ linux-2.6.17-git2/drivers/usb/serial/usb-serial.c	2006-06-21 23:25:12.000000000 +0200
@@ -83,7 +83,7 @@ static struct usb_serial *get_free_seria
 
 		good_spot = 1;
 		for (j = 1; j <= num_ports-1; ++j)
-			if ((i+j >= SERIAL_TTY_MINORS) || (serial_table[i+j])) {
+			if ((i+j >= SERIAL_TTY_MINORS-1)||(serial_table[i+j])) {
 				good_spot = 0;
 				i += j;
 				break;



             reply	other threads:[~2006-06-21 21:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-06-21 21:28 Eric Sesterhenn [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2006-06-22 13:31 [Patch] Off by one in drivers/usb/serial/usb-serial.c Mikael Pettersson
2006-06-22 14:28 ` Eric Sesterhenn / Snakebyte
2006-06-25 22:59 ` Eric Sesterhenn / Snakebyte
2006-06-26 19:10   ` Greg KH
2006-06-26 19:30     ` Eric Sesterhenn / Snakebyte

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