Re: [patch] video: fbdev: metronomefb: two harmless off by one bugs

From: Tomi Valkeinen
Date: Tue Feb 16 2016 - 07:53:43 EST




On 30/01/16 16:44, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> par->metromem_cmd->args[] is an array of 31 elements of size u16. Here
> we have initialized the first "i" elements and want to set the rest to
> zero.
>
> The issue here is that ARRAY_SIZE(par->metromem_cmd->args) is 31 and not
> 32 as in the original code. It means that we set ->csum to zero, but
> that is harmless because we immediately set it to the correct value on
> the next line.
>
> Still, the buffer overflow upsets static checkers so let's correct the
> math.

Thanks, queued for 4.6.

Tomi

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