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Date: Mon, 11 Apr 2011 11:00:28 +0530
From: Mohammed Shafi <shafi.ath9k@...il.com>
To: roel <roel.kluin@...il.com>
Cc: "Luis R. Rodriguez" <lrodriguez@...eros.com>,
Jouni Malinen <jmalinen@...eros.com>,
Vasanthakumar Thiagarajan <vasanth@...eros.com>,
Senthil Balasubramanian <senthilkumar@...eros.com>,
linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org, ath9k-devel@...ts.ath9k.org,
Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [ath9k-devel] [PATCH 2/2] ath9k: index out of bounds
On Mon, Apr 11, 2011 at 12:39 AM, roel <roel.kluin@...il.com> wrote:
> Check whether index is within bounds before testing the element
>
> Signed-off-by: Roel Kluin <roel.kluin@...il.com>
> ---
> drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/rc.c | 3 +--
> 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/rc.c b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/rc.c
> index 4c0d36a..1809409 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/rc.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/rc.c
> @@ -1092,8 +1092,7 @@ static int ath_rc_get_rateindex(const struct ath_rate_table *rate_table,
> if (!(rate->flags & IEEE80211_TX_RC_MCS))
> return rate->idx;
>
> - while (rate->idx > mcs_rix_off[i] &&
> - i < ARRAY_SIZE(mcs_rix_off)) {
> + while (i < ARRAY_SIZE(mcs_rix_off) && rate->idx > mcs_rix_off[i]) {
> rix++; i++;
> }
>
hi,
This looks correct. with the current ath9k rate control, the MCS
index never exceeded 23 and thats why the out of bounds problem never
came.
thanks,
shafi
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