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From: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
To: "Tobin C. Harding" <me@tobin.cc>,
	Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>,
	noralf@tronnes.org
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
	devel@driverdev.osuosl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 2/3] staging: fbtft: Replace magic number with constant
Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2017 19:36:28 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1487129788.6214.41.camel@perches.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1487129245-24970-3-git-send-email-me@tobin.cc>

On Wed, 2017-02-15 at 14:27 +1100, Tobin C. Harding wrote:
> Current call to strncmp() uses a magic number. There is a compile
> time constant defined for this buffer, included and used already at
> other sites in the file.
> 
> Remove magic number. Replace with pre-existing compile time constant.

OK thanks, as well:

> diff --git a/drivers/staging/fbtft/fbtft_device.c b/drivers/staging/fbtft/fbtft_device.c
[]
> @@ -1489,7 +1489,7 @@ static int __init fbtft_device_init(void)
>  	}
>  
>  	for (i = 0; i < ARRAY_SIZE(displays); i++) {
> -		if (strncmp(name, displays[i].name, 32) == 0) {
> +		if (strncmp(name, displays[i].name, SPI_NAME_SIZE) == 0) {

Maybe change this to:

		if (strncmp(name, displays[i].name, SPI_NAME_SIZE) != 0)
			continue;

and reduce the indentation of the rest of the block.

  reply	other threads:[~2017-02-15  3:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-02-15  3:27 [PATCH v2 0/3] staging: fbtft: Fix buffer overflow vulnerability Tobin C. Harding
2017-02-15  3:27 ` [PATCH v2 1/3] " Tobin C. Harding
2017-02-15  3:27 ` [PATCH v2 2/3] staging: fbtft: Replace magic number with constant Tobin C. Harding
2017-02-15  3:36   ` Joe Perches [this message]
2017-02-15  3:27 ` [PATCH v2 3/3] staging: fbtft: Add check on strlcpy() return value Tobin C. Harding

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