> From: Greg Kroah-Hartman [mailto:[email protected]] > Subject: Re: [patch] staging: ramster: fix range checks in > zcache_autocreate_pool() > > On Thu, Sep 06, 2012 at 03:40:20PM +0300, Dan Carpenter wrote: > > If "pool_id" is negative then it leads to a read before the start of the > > array. If "cli_id" is out of bounds then it leads to a NULL dereference > > of "cli". GCC would have warned about that bug except that we > > initialized the warning message away. > > > > Also it's better to put the parameter names into the function > > declaration in the .h file. It serves as a kind of documentation. > > > > Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <[email protected]> > > --- > > BTW, This file has a ton of GCC warnings. This function returns -1 > > on error which is a nonsense return code but the return value is not > > checked anyway. *Grumble*. > > I agree, it's very messy. Dan Magenheimer should have known better, and > he better be sending me a patch soon to remove these warnings (hint...)
On its way soon. Dan _______________________________________________ devel mailing list [email protected] http://driverdev.linuxdriverproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
