Dan,

 
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Thanks & Regards,
Pavan Savoy | x0099669
 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dan Carpenter [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: Friday, August 27, 2010 4:53 PM
> To: Savoy, Pavan
> Cc: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [bug report] ti-st: potential overflow calling st_send_frame()
> 
> On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 07:43:02PM +0530, Savoy, Pavan wrote:
> > I am not sure I understand, the logic is something like this, when the
> > state of the recv is W4_DATA, the protoid would be already set to
> > either ST_BT, ST_FM or ST_GPS based on the packet id received under
> > state HCI_EVENT_PKT or ST_FM_CH8_PKT or 0x9.
> >
> > The protoid is set to ST_MAX after doing a st_send_frame because the
> > protoid variable needs to be sort of reset (not absolutely necessary),
> > but the state has to be carefully updated to W4_PACKET_TYPE so that
> > protoid is set to right value upon recv-ing next packet..
> >
> 
> It's also initialized to ST_MAX at the start of the function.  It hard
> to follow the flow so I wasn't sure that st_gdata->rx_state couldn't be
> ST_BT_W4_DATA when st_int_recv() is called.
> 
> But now that you've explained it, it's cool.  Sorry for the noise.

No problem, Thanks and appreciate you running audits over my driver :)
Please report any other findings to help improve..


> regards,
> dan carpenter
> 
> 
> > This is all because the UART may send in 100 bytes of BT data in chunks
> > of 5 20bytes packets.
> >
> > Does this make sense?
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > > regards,
> > > dan carpenter
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