linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] perf tools: fix off-by-one comparison on maximum code

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Date:	Mon, 25 Apr 2016 20:29:20 -0300
From:	Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...nel.org>
To:	Colin King <colin.king@...onical.com>
Cc:	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
	Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@...ux.intel.com>,
	Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@...el.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] perf tools: fix off-by-one comparison on maximum code

Em Sun, Apr 24, 2016 at 07:56:43PM +0100, Colin King escreveu:
> From: Colin Ian King <colin.king@...onical.com>
> 
> The check for the maximum code is off-by-one; the current
> comparison of a code that is INTEL_PT_ERR_MAX will cause the
> strlcpy to perform an out of bounds array access on the
> intel_pt_err_msgs array. Fix this with a >= comparison.

Applied, thanks.

- Arnaldo
 
> Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king@...onical.com>
> ---
>  tools/perf/util/intel-pt-decoder/intel-pt-decoder.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/tools/perf/util/intel-pt-decoder/intel-pt-decoder.c b/tools/perf/util/intel-pt-decoder/intel-pt-decoder.c
> index 9409d01..9c8f15d 100644
> --- a/tools/perf/util/intel-pt-decoder/intel-pt-decoder.c
> +++ b/tools/perf/util/intel-pt-decoder/intel-pt-decoder.c
> @@ -356,7 +356,7 @@ static const char *intel_pt_err_msgs[] = {
>  
>  int intel_pt__strerror(int code, char *buf, size_t buflen)
>  {
> -	if (code < 1 || code > INTEL_PT_ERR_MAX)
> +	if (code < 1 || code >= INTEL_PT_ERR_MAX)
>  		code = INTEL_PT_ERR_UNK;
>  	strlcpy(buf, intel_pt_err_msgs[code], buflen);
>  	return 0;
> -- 
> 2.7.4