linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH net-next] ieee802154: ca8210: remove a dead branch

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Date:   Tue, 11 Dec 2018 09:51:31 +0800
From:   YueHaibing <yuehaibing@...wei.com>
To:     David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
CC:     <h.morris@...coda.com>, <alex.aring@...il.com>,
        <stefan@...enfreihafen.org>, <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        <netdev@...r.kernel.org>, <linux-wpan@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] ieee802154: ca8210: remove a dead branch

On 2018/12/11 4:04, David Miller wrote:
> From: YueHaibing <yuehaibing@...wei.com>
> Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2018 19:34:43 +0800
> 
>> Fix follwing gcc warning:
>>
>> drivers/net/ieee802154/ca8210.c:730:10: warning:
>>  comparison is always false due to limited range of data type [-Wtype-limits]
>>
>> the variable 'len' is of type u8 and cannot greater than
>> CA8210_SPI_BUF_SIZE , which is 256.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: YueHaibing <yuehaibing@...wei.com>
> 
> Then bug is the variable type here.
> 
> We are reading a u8 from buf[], then adding 2, which can overflow.
> 
> 'len' should be an unsigned int or similar.

Oh, Yes, will do it in v2.

> 
> .
>