linux-kernel - [patch] p54: potential signedness issue in p54_parse

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Message-ID: <20121202103609.GA16078@elgon.mountain>
Date:	Sun, 2 Dec 2012 13:36:09 +0300
From:	Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>
To:	Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@...glemail.com>
Cc:	"John W. Linville" <linville@...driver.com>,
	linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [patch] p54: potential signedness issue in p54_parse_rssical()

"entries" is unsigned here, so it is never less than zero.  In theory,
len could be less than offset so I have added a check for that.

Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>

diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/p54/eeprom.c b/drivers/net/wireless/p54/eeprom.c
index 1ef1bfe..d43e374 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/p54/eeprom.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/p54/eeprom.c
@@ -541,8 +541,9 @@ static int p54_parse_rssical(struct ieee80211_hw *dev,
 		entries = (len - offset) /
 			sizeof(struct pda_rssi_cal_ext_entry);
 
-		if ((len - offset) % sizeof(struct pda_rssi_cal_ext_entry) ||
-		    entries <= 0) {
+		if (len < offset ||
+		    (len - offset) % sizeof(struct pda_rssi_cal_ext_entry) ||
+		    entries == 0) {
 			wiphy_err(dev->wiphy, "invalid rssi database.\n");
 			goto err_data;
 		}
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