linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] wusb: Use sizeof struct rather than pointer

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Date:	Tue, 24 Nov 2009 02:22:26 +0000
From:	David Vrabel <david.vrabel@....com>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
CC:	Roel Kluin <roel.kluin@...il.com>, linux-usb@...r.kernel.org,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] wusb: Use sizeof struct rather than pointer

Andrew Morton wrote:
> 
> But I wonder if the code will still work.  Because we then go on to do
> 
>         secd_size = le16_to_cpu(secd->wTotalLength);
>         secd = krealloc(secd, secd_size, GFP_KERNEL);
> 
> which implies (to me) that the thing we read from the device might
> indeed have been smaller than we expected, in which case the
> newly-fixed check will cause a failure.

We first read the security descriptor which tells use the total length 
of the security descriptor plus all the following encryption type 
descriptors.  Your revised patch is fine.

David
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