Re: [PATCH 2/2] regmap: Add range check in _regmap_raw_write()

From: Mark Brown
Date: Thu Feb 19 2015 - 06:57:05 EST


On Thu, Feb 19, 2015 at 11:11:58AM +0000, Srinivas Kandagatla wrote:
> On 19/02/15 10:31, Mark Brown wrote:

> >Your changelog doesn't correspond to what the code is actually doing
> >here... what you're actually doing here is replacing an open coding of
> >regmap_writeable() with calls to the function.

> Only reason for me to send this patch was that fact that _regmap_raw_write()
> also suffers from same issue as _regmap_raw_read(), which is "access beyond
> max_register".

> Should I drop this patch?
> Or
> Adding similar check of max_register before the writing makes sense?

No, please go and reread your patch - neither your description above nor
the changelog match up with what it's actually doing. It looks like a
perfectly sensible patch, it just doesn't do what you're saying it does.

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