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From: Vojtech Pavlik <vojtech@suse.cz>
To: "Jörn Engel" <joern@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [BUG] in drivers/char/joystick/magellan.c
Date: Tue, 28 Jan 2003 16:57:19 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030128165719.A382@ucw.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030128155312.GD10685@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de>; from joern@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de on Tue, Jan 28, 2003 at 04:53:12PM +0100

On Tue, Jan 28, 2003 at 04:53:12PM +0100, Jörn Engel wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> Without the patch below, the \0 terminating the string is written
> anywhere. nibbles[] would be even better, I guess.

Well, the zero isn't used, so it might make sense to use '0', 'A', 'B' ...
... though that's not very nice either.

> Can you check for stupidity on my side?

Can't find any. ;) Patch applied with [].

> 
> Jörn
> 
> -- 
> But this is not to say that the main benefit of Linux and other GPL
> software is lower-cost. Control is the main benefit--cost is secondary.
> -- Bruce Perens
> 
> diff -Naur linux-2.4.21-pre3-ac4/drivers/char/joystick/magellan.c scratch/drivers/char/joystick/magellan.c
> --- linux-2.4.21-pre3-ac4/drivers/char/joystick/magellan.c	Thu Sep 13 00:34:06 2001
> +++ scratch/drivers/char/joystick/magellan.c	Mon Jan 27 13:49:54 2003
> @@ -66,7 +66,7 @@
>  
>  static int magellan_crunch_nibbles(unsigned char *data, int count)
>  {
> -	static unsigned char nibbles[16] = "0AB3D56GH9:K<MN?";
> +	static unsigned char nibbles[17] = "0AB3D56GH9:K<MN?";
>  
>  	do {
>  		if (data[count] == nibbles[data[count] & 0xf])

-- 
Vojtech Pavlik
SuSE Labs

  reply	other threads:[~2003-01-28 15:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-01-28 15:53 [BUG] in drivers/char/joystick/magellan.c Jörn Engel
2003-01-28 15:57 ` Vojtech Pavlik [this message]
2003-01-28 15:59   ` Jörn Engel
2003-01-29 13:59   ` Horst von Brand
2003-01-28 17:57 ` Martin Mares
2003-01-28 18:10   ` Jörn Engel
2003-01-28 18:47   ` Randy.Dunlap
2003-01-28 21:03     ` Vojtech Pavlik
2003-01-29 12:25       ` Jörn Engel

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