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From: Alexey Khoroshilov <khoroshilov@ispras.ru>
To: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Cc: Jouni Malinen <j@w1.fi>,
	"John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>,
	linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, ldv-project@linuxtesting.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] hostap: do not return positive number on failure path in prism2_open()
Date: Mon, 05 Aug 2013 08:01:08 +0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <51FF2384.2070008@ispras.ru> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1375673616.3133.23.camel@joe-AO722>

On 08/05/2013 07:33 AM, Joe Perches wrote:
> On Mon, 2013-08-05 at 07:18 +0400, Alexey Khoroshilov wrote:
>> prism2_open() as an .ndo_open handler should not return positive numbers
>> in case of failure, but it does return 1 in a couple of places.
>>
>> Found by Linux Driver Verification project (linuxtesting.org).
> How?
>
> http://linuxtesting.org/project/ldv
> http://linuxtesting.org/results/ldv
>
> Shows defects and patches to fix them, but not any script
> used to find it.
There is a link to build instructions there:
http://forge.ispras.ru/projects/ldv/wiki/Downloading_and_Building_LDV

Currently it requires some efforts to install all the dependencies, the
simplest way is to use puppet script for Ubuntu 12.04 that you can find
in the repository.

--
Alexey

  reply	other threads:[~2013-08-05  4:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-08-05  3:18 [PATCH] hostap: do not return positive number on failure path in prism2_open() Alexey Khoroshilov
2013-08-05  3:33 ` Joe Perches
2013-08-05  4:01   ` Alexey Khoroshilov [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2013-08-05  3:02 Alexey Khoroshilov
2013-08-05  3:18 ` Alexey Khoroshilov

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