Re: [PATCH v2 1/4] iio: proximity: hx9023s: fix out-of-bounds access when copying firmware

[Krzysztof Kozlowski]

On Thu, Feb 12, 2026 at 02:26:52PM +0800, Yasin Lee wrote:
> Initialize fw_size before copying firmware data into the flexible
> array member to match the __counted_by() annotation. This fixes a
> potential out-of-bounds access that could lead to a kernel crash.

I don't think so. Code is equivalent and this was just false positive
because compiler could not deduce that in this case counted_by can be by
fw->size.

> 
> Fixes: e9ed97be4fcc ("iio: proximity: hx9023s: Added firmware file parsing functionality")

Also not appropriate IMO, nothing to fix.

Commit is fine, but this is not a fix, IMO.

Best regards,
Krzysztof