netdev - Re: [PATCH 31/31] staging: r8188eu: Fix smatch error

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Date:	Thu, 02 Jan 2014 16:19:33 -0600
From:	Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@...inger.net>
To:	Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>
CC:	gregkh@...uxfoundation.org, devel@...verdev.osuosl.org,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 31/31] staging: r8188eu: Fix smatch error

On 01/02/2014 02:44 AM, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 22, 2013 at 05:37:02PM -0600, Larry Finger wrote:
>> Smatch shows the following:
>>
>>    CHECK   drivers/staging/rtl8188eu/core/rtw_mlme_ext.c
>> drivers/staging/rtl8188eu/core/rtw_mlme_ext.c:1401 OnAssocReq() error: buffer overflow 'pstapriv->sta_aid' 32 <= 32
>>
>
> This is a false positive in Smatch.  Don't do work arounds for buggy
> tools.
>
> If you have the cross function database built on the latest version of
> Smatch then I think it understands the code correctly and doesn't print
> a warning.

When I analyzed the loop in question, I thought it resulted in a subscript of 
[NUM_STA], but I now see that the largest one is [NUM_STA-1]. I will drop this 
patch in the next round.

Thanks for the info regarding a new version of Smatch. I'll update now.

Larry

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