Subject: Re: [PATCH 31/31] staging: r8188eu: Fix smatch error

From: Dan Carpenter <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 2 Jan 2014 11:44:10 +0300

On Sun, Dec 22, 2013 at 05:37:02PM -0600, Larry Finger wrote:
> Smatch shows the following:
> 
>   CHECK   drivers/staging/rtl8188eu/core/rtw_mlme_ext.c
> drivers/staging/rtl8188eu/core/rtw_mlme_ext.c:1401 OnAssocReq() error: buffer overflow 'pstapriv->sta_aid' 32 <= 32
> 

This is a false positive in Smatch.  Don't do work arounds for buggy
tools.

If you have the cross function database built on the latest version of
Smatch then I think it understands the code correctly and doesn't print
a warning.

regards,
dan carpenter