Re: [PATCH net-next] ieee802154: ca8210: fix possible u8 overflow in ca8210_rx_done

From: Stefan Schmidt
Date: Tue Dec 11 2018 - 03:27:13 EST


Hello Dave.

On 11.12.18 07:01, David Miller wrote:
> From: YueHaibing <yuehaibing@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2018 11:13:39 +0800
>
>> gcc warning this:
>>
>> drivers/net/ieee802154/ca8210.c:730:10: warning:
>> comparison is always false due to limited range of data type [-Wtype-limits]
>>
>> 'len' is u8 type, we get it from buf[1] adding 2, which can overflow.
>> This patch change the type of 'len' to unsigned int to avoid this,also fix
>> the gcc warning.
>>
>> Fixes: ded845a781a5 ("ieee802154: Add CA8210 IEEE 802.15.4 device driver")
>> Signed-off-by: YueHaibing <yuehaibing@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> WPAN maintainers, I am assuming that as maintainers you will be
> picking this up and sending it to me.

That's correct. On driver patches I always wait 2 days or so to give the
driver maintainer a chance to reply before I go ahead and apply it.

I will take this one directly now and do some smoke testing. It will
come together with another fix as pull request to you.

regards
Stefan Schmidt