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* [PATCH] bcm43xx-softmac: Fix an off-by-one condition in handle_irq_noise
@ 2006-06-29  0:11 Larry Finger
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From: Larry Finger @ 2006-06-29  0:11 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: John Linville, netdev

An assert statement near the start of handle_irq_noise in the softmac version of bcm43xx_main.c is 
there to protect against out of bound addressing using variable bcm->noisecalc.nr_samples. The 
arrays in question have a dimension of 8, thus the value must be < 8.

Signed-Off-By: Larry.Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>

diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/bcm43xx/bcm43xx_main.c b/drivers/net/wireless/bcm43xx/bcm43xx_main.c
index af97755..c154be0 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/bcm43xx/bcm43xx_main.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/bcm43xx/bcm43xx_main.c
@@ -1547,7 +1547,7 @@ static void handle_irq_noise(struct bcm4
		goto generate_new;

	/* Get the noise samples. */
-	assert(bcm->noisecalc.nr_samples <= 8);
+	assert(bcm->noisecalc.nr_samples < 8);
	i = bcm->noisecalc.nr_samples;
	noise[0] = limit_value(noise[0], 0, ARRAY_SIZE(radio->nrssi_lt) - 1);
	noise[1] = limit_value(noise[1], 0, ARRAY_SIZE(radio->nrssi_lt) - 1);

Larry


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