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Message-ID: <87dbac94-8b2e-8cef-5166-8c130529ceb9@datenfreihafen.org>
Date:   Tue, 11 Dec 2018 09:26:37 +0100
From:   Stefan Schmidt <stefan@...enfreihafen.org>
To:     David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, yuehaibing@...wei.com
Cc:     h.morris@...coda.com, alex.aring@...il.com,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-wpan@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] ieee802154: ca8210: fix possible u8 overflow in
 ca8210_rx_done

Hello Dave.

On 11.12.18 07:01, David Miller wrote:
> From: YueHaibing <yuehaibing@...wei.com>
> Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2018 11:13:39 +0800
> 
>> gcc warning this:
>>
>> drivers/net/ieee802154/ca8210.c:730:10: warning:
>>  comparison is always false due to limited range of data type [-Wtype-limits]
>>
>> 'len' is u8 type, we get it from buf[1] adding 2, which can overflow.
>> This patch change the type of 'len' to unsigned int to avoid this,also fix
>> the gcc warning.
>>
>> Fixes: ded845a781a5 ("ieee802154: Add CA8210 IEEE 802.15.4 device driver")
>> Signed-off-by: YueHaibing <yuehaibing@...wei.com>
> 
> WPAN maintainers, I am assuming that as maintainers you will be
> picking this up and sending it to me.

That's correct. On driver patches I always wait 2 days or so to give the
driver maintainer a chance to reply before I go ahead and apply it.

I will take this one directly now and do some smoke testing. It will
come together with another fix as pull request to you.

regards
Stefan Schmidt

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