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From: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
To: Roland Dreier <roland@topspin.com>
Cc: jgarzik@pobox.com, linux-net@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: drivers/net/at1700.c: at1700_probe1: array overflow
Date: Fri, 25 Mar 2005 21:38:20 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050325203820.GF3153@stusta.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <528y4b7ekc.fsf@topspin.com>

On Fri, Mar 25, 2005 at 10:42:11AM -0800, Roland Dreier wrote:
>     Adrian> This can result in indexing in an array with 8 entries the
>     Adrian> 10th entry.
> 
> Well, not really, since the first 8 entries of the array have every
> 3-bit pattern.  So pos3 & 0x07 will always match one of them.
> 
> I agree it would be cleaner to make the loop only go up to 7 though.

You either have this (impossible) overflow, or the case l_i == 7 isn't 
tested explicitely.

I'd say simply leave it as it is now.

But if noone disagrees, I'm inclined to add a comment.

>  - R.

cu
Adrian

-- 

       "Is there not promise of rain?" Ling Tan asked suddenly out
        of the darkness. There had been need of rain for many days.
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  reply	other threads:[~2005-03-25 20:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-03-25 18:18 drivers/net/at1700.c: at1700_probe1: array overflow Adrian Bunk
2005-03-25 18:42 ` Roland Dreier
2005-03-25 20:38   ` Adrian Bunk [this message]
2005-03-30  0:49     ` null

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