linux-kernel - Re: [Suggestion] drivers/tty: drivers/char/: for MAX_ASYNC_BUFFER

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Date:	Thu, 29 Nov 2012 13:41:36 +0000
From:	Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To:	Chen Gang <gang.chen@...anux.com>
Cc:	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [Suggestion] drivers/tty: drivers/char/:  for
 MAX_ASYNC_BUFFER_SIZE

On Thu, 29 Nov 2012 13:07:28 +0800
Chen Gang <gang.chen@...anux.com> wrote:

> Hello Greg Kroah-Hartman:
> 
> for MAX_ASYNC_BUFFER_SIZE:
>   it is defined as 4096;
>   but for the max buffer size which it processes, is 65535.
>   so suggest to #define MAX_ASYNC_BUFFER_SIZE 0x10000  (better than 0xffff)

I don't see the need to change this. Possibly some of the old synclink
drivers need to check more carefully for overflows if configured for very
large frame sizes ?

> 
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Step 3:
> 
> one sample in drivers/tty/n_gsm.c  (same for another implementation)
> 
>   receive_buf is a function ptr which may be gsmld_receive_buf at line 2819. 
>   it does not check the length of count whether larger than MAX_ASYNC_BUFFER_SIZE.
>   if count is larger than MAX_ASYNC_BUFFER_SIZE, will cause issue.

Why should it - MAX_ASYNC_BUFFER_SIZE is an internal detail of the
synclink drivers. 

Alan
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