linux-kernel - Re: [Patch] net: fix an array index overflow

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Message-ID: <hf3et2$2da$1@taverner.cs.berkeley.edu>
Date:	Tue, 1 Dec 2009 16:05:54 +0000 (UTC)
From:	daw@...berkeley.edu (David Wagner)
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [Patch] net: fix an array index overflow

Amerigo Wang  wrote:
> Don't use the address of an out-of-boundary element.

Why not?  There is nothing wrong with using a pointer to an element
one-past-the-end in this way.  It's idiomatic C.
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