linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] staging: line6: fix possible overrun

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Date:	Tue, 29 Apr 2014 18:02:26 +0300
From:	Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>
To:	Takashi Iwai <tiwai@...e.de>
Cc:	Mateusz Guzik <mguzik@...hat.com>, gregkh@...uxfoundation.org,
	devel@...verdev.osuosl.org,
	Laurent Navet <laurent.navet@...il.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] staging: line6: fix possible overrun

Yeah.  If this were a brand new driver then returning -EINVAL would be a
good idea.

Smatch actually warns about this code as well if you turn on the
--spammy option.  But there are too many of these kinds of warnings and
even I can't check them all so the warning is basically useless.

In a few months I will have improved the Smatch code to know that the
source string is too large so this bug could have been avoided.

regards,
dan carpenter
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