From: David Sterba <[email protected]>
Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2011 12:55:29 +0100

> Static analyzer of clang found a dead store which appears to be a bug in
> reading count of items in SEQOF field, only the lower byte of word is
> stored. This may lead to corrupted read and communication shutdown.
> 
> The bug has been in the module since it's first inclusion into linux
> kernel.
> 
> Signed-off-by: David Sterba <[email protected]>

Please send netfilter patches to the listed netfilter maintainer
and appropriate mailing lists.  I've added them to the CC:

Otherwise your patch will not be looked at by the right people.

> CC: David Miller <[email protected]>
> CC: [email protected]
> CC: [email protected]
> ---
>  net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_h323_asn1.c |    2 +-
>  1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_h323_asn1.c 
> b/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_h323_asn1.c
> index 8678823..bcd5ed6 100644
> --- a/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_h323_asn1.c
> +++ b/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_h323_asn1.c
> @@ -631,7 +631,7 @@ static int decode_seqof(bitstr_t *bs, const struct 
> field_t *f,
>               CHECK_BOUND(bs, 2);
>               count = *bs->cur++;
>               count <<= 8;
> -             count = *bs->cur++;
> +             count += *bs->cur++;
>               break;
>       case SEMI:
>               BYTE_ALIGN(bs);
> -- 
> 1.7.4.1.176.g501cc
> 

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