linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 3/4] Input: zforce - Remove unnecessary payload data checks

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Message-ID: <1792639.WIegrEEhpK@phil>
Date:	Mon, 27 Jan 2014 21:16:56 +0100
From:	Heiko Stübner <heiko@...ech.de>
To:	Luis Ortega <luiorpe1@....es>
Cc:	dmitry.torokhov@...il.com, yongjun_wei@...ndmicro.com.cn,
	linux-input@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/4] Input: zforce - Remove unnecessary payload data checks

On Monday, 27. January 2014 19:46:12 Luis Ortega wrote:
> The function zforce_read_packet() reads 2 values (bytes) of payload
> header, validates them and then proceeds to read the payload body.
> The function stores all these in a u8 buffer.
> 
> The PAYLOAD_LENGTH check seems to be trying to detect an overflow error.
> However, since we are just reading a u8 value from the buffer, these
> checks are unnecessary and we should simply compare against zero.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Luis Ortega <luiorpe1@....es>

Acked-by: Heiko Stuebner <heiko@...ech.de>

on a bq Cervantes (imx6sl)
Tested-by: Heiko Stuebner <heiko@...ech.de>


> ---
>  drivers/input/touchscreen/zforce_ts.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/input/touchscreen/zforce_ts.c
> b/drivers/input/touchscreen/zforce_ts.c index c1b6b82..e082d5c 100644
> --- a/drivers/input/touchscreen/zforce_ts.c
> +++ b/drivers/input/touchscreen/zforce_ts.c
> @@ -423,7 +423,7 @@ static int zforce_read_packet(struct zforce_ts *ts, u8
> *buf) goto unlock;
>  	}
> 
> -	if (buf[PAYLOAD_LENGTH] <= 0 || buf[PAYLOAD_LENGTH] > 255) {
> +	if (buf[PAYLOAD_LENGTH] == 0) {
>  		dev_err(&client->dev, "invalid payload length: %d\n",
>  			buf[PAYLOAD_LENGTH]);
>  		ret = -EIO;

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