On Mon, Jun 30, 2014 at 09:22:47AM +0200, Richard Weinberger wrote:
> This was introduced by:
> commit 206a81c18401c0cde6e579164f752c4b147324ce
> Author: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gre...@linuxfoundation.org>
> Date:   Fri Jun 20 22:00:53 2014 -0700
> 
>     lzo: properly check for overruns
> 
> Thanks,
> //richard
> 
> -------- Original-Nachricht --------
> Betreff: New Defects reported by Coverity Scan for Linux
> Datum: Sun, 29 Jun 2014 22:09:11 -0700
> Von: scan-ad...@coverity.com
> 
> 
> Hi,
> 
> 
> Please find the latest report on new defect(s) introduced to Linux found with 
> Coverity Scan.
> 
> Defect(s) Reported-by: Coverity Scan
> Showing 1 of 1 defect(s)
> 
> 
> ** CID 1224102:  Macro compares unsigned to 0  (NO_EFFECT)
> /lib/lzo/lzo1x_decompress_safe.c: 225 in lzo1x_decompress_safe()
> 
> 
> ________________________________________________________________________________________________________
> *** CID 1224102:  Macro compares unsigned to 0  (NO_EFFECT)
> /lib/lzo/lzo1x_decompress_safe.c: 225 in lzo1x_decompress_safe()
> 219                           op += t;
> 220                           ip += t;
> 221                   } else
> 222     #endif
> 223                   {
> 224                           NEED_IP(t, 3);
> >>>     CID 1224102:  Macro compares unsigned to 0  (NO_EFFECT)
> >>>     This greater-than-or-equal-to-zero comparison of an unsigned value is 
> >>> always true. "t + 0UL >= 0UL".
> 225                           NEED_OP(t, 0);
> 226                           while (t > 0) {
> 227                                   *op++ = *ip++;
> 228                                   t--;
> 229                           }
> 230                   }
> 
> 
> ________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Looks like coverity needs to fix their "this is how you test for an
overflow" logic, right?  Or did I get the test wrong?

thanks,

greg k-h
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