linux-kernel - Re: bug list: range checking issues

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Date:	Mon, 15 Feb 2010 17:04:35 +0300
From:	Dan Carpenter <error27@...il.com>
To:	Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@...il.com>
Cc:	kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: bug list: range checking issues

On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 03:47:24PM +0200, Alexey Dobriyan wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 03:40:56PM +0300, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> > kernel/pid_namespace.c +96 create_pid_namespace(26) warn: buffer overflow 'ns->pidmap' 1 <= 1
> 
> What overflows exactly here?

It's a false positive:

smatch thinks the array ns->pidmap[] has ARRAY_SIZE() of 1 and i is 1.

kernel/pid_namespace.c
    95          for (i = 1; i < PIDMAP_ENTRIES; i++)
    96                  atomic_set(&ns->pidmap[i].nr_free, BITS_PER_PAGE);

On my .config PIDMAP_ENTRIES is 0 so that line is never reached.

regards,
dan carpenter
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