netdev - Re: [patch] [IrDA]: small read past the end of array in debug code

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Date:	Fri, 19 Apr 2013 17:33:29 -0400 (EDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	dan.carpenter@...cle.com
Cc:	samuel@...tiz.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch] [IrDA]: small read past the end of array in debug code

From: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>
Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2013 10:10:38 +0300

> The "reason" can come from skb->data[] and it hasn't been capped so it
> can be from 0-255 instead of just 0-6.  For example in irlmp_state_dtr()
> the code does:
> 
> 	reason = skb->data[3];
> 	...
> 	irlmp_disconnect_indication(self, reason, skb);
> 
> Also LMREASON has a couple other values which don't have entries in the
> irlmp_reasons[] array.  And 0xff is a valid reason as well which means
> "unknown".
> 
> So far as I can see we don't actually care about "reason" except for in
> the debug code.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>

Applied but please put the subsystem prefix outside of [] which get
stripped by git am and other tools.  I fixed it up to be "irda: ".

Thanks.
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