linux-kernel - Re: [patch] video: fbdev: metronomefb: two harmless off by one bugs

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Message-ID: <56C31BCA.2020606@ti.com>
Date:	Tue, 16 Feb 2016 14:53:30 +0200
From:	Tomi Valkeinen <tomi.valkeinen@...com>
To:	Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>,
	Jean-Christophe Plagniol-Villard <plagnioj@...osoft.com>,
	Jaya Kumar <jayakumar.lkml@...il.com>
CC:	<linux-fbdev@...r.kernel.org>, <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	<kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [patch] video: fbdev: metronomefb: two harmless off by one bugs



On 30/01/16 16:44, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> par->metromem_cmd->args[] is an array of 31 elements of size u16.  Here
> we have initialized the first "i" elements and want to set the rest to
> zero.
> 
> The issue here is that ARRAY_SIZE(par->metromem_cmd->args) is 31 and not
> 32 as in the original code.  It means that we set ->csum to zero, but
> that is harmless because we immediately set it to the correct value on
> the next line.
> 
> Still, the buffer overflow upsets static checkers so let's correct the
> math.

Thanks, queued for 4.6.

 Tomi


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