netdev - Re: [patch] atm: firestream: add more reserved strings

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Date:	Tue, 31 May 2016 11:53:12 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	dan.carpenter@...cle.com
Cc:	3chas3@...il.com, patrick@...wizard.nl,
	linux-atm-general@...ts.sourceforge.net, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch] atm: firestream: add more reserved strings

From: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>
Date: Fri, 27 May 2016 13:33:50 +0300

> This bug was there when the driver was first added in back in year 2000.
> It causes a Smatch warning:
> 
>     drivers/atm/firestream.c:849 process_incoming()
>     error: buffer overflow 'res_strings' 60 <= 63
> 
> There are supposed to be 64 entries in this array and the missing
> strings are clearly in the 30 40 range.  I added them as reserved 37 to
> reserved 40.  It's possible that strings are really supposed to be added
> in the middle instead of at the end, but this approach is safe, in that
> it fixes the bug and doesn't break anything that wasn't already broken.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>

Applied.