linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] Staging: rtl8188eu fix buffer overflow

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Message-ID: <20150320184909.GY10964@mwanda>
Date:	Fri, 20 Mar 2015 21:49:09 +0300
From:	Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>
To:	Matteo Semenzato <mattew8898@...il.com>
Cc:	gregkh@...uxfoundation.org, navin.patidar@...il.com,
	hejianet@...il.com, sudipm.mukherjee@...il.com,
	devel@...verdev.osuosl.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Staging: rtl8188eu fix buffer overflow

On Fri, Mar 20, 2015 at 03:21:40PM +0100, Matteo Semenzato wrote:
> From: Matteo Semenzato <mattew8898@...il.com>
> 
> This patch fixes the buffer overflow caused by accessing index 4 of hwxmits.
> 

This is a Smatch warning?  It's a false positive because the code that
accesses hwxmits[4] is dead code.  Just delete it that section.

regards,
dan carpenter

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