Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/4] NET: NETROM: Cleanup argument SIOCADDRT ioctl argument checking.

From: walter harms <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 25 Nov 2011 13:12:25 +0100

hi,
according to LXR there are several places where the check is >AX25_MAX_DIGIS instead of >=.

any takers ?

re,
 wh

Am 25.11.2011 12:22, schrieb walter harms:
> 
> 
> Am 25.11.2011 10:09, schrieb Ralf Baechle:
>> nr_route.ndigis is unsigned int so the nr_route.ndigis < 0 expression is
>> never true and can be dropped.  Doing the nr_ax25_dev_get call later
>> allows the nr_route.ndigis test to bail out without having to dev_put.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <[email-masked]>
>> Cc: Thomas Osterried <[email-masked]>
>> ---
>>  net/netrom/nr_route.c |    6 ++----
>>  1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/net/netrom/nr_route.c b/net/netrom/nr_route.c
>> index 8d7716c..2cf3301 100644
>> --- a/net/netrom/nr_route.c
>> +++ b/net/netrom/nr_route.c
>> @@ -670,12 +670,10 @@ int nr_rt_ioctl(unsigned int cmd, void __user *arg)
>>  	case SIOCADDRT:
>>  		if (copy_from_user(&nr_route, arg, sizeof(struct nr_route_struct)))
>>  			return -EFAULT;
>> -		if ((dev = nr_ax25_dev_get(nr_route.device)) == NULL)
>> +		if (nr_route.ndigis > AX25_MAX_DIGIS)
>>  			return -EINVAL;
>> -		if (nr_route.ndigis < 0 || nr_route.ndigis > AX25_MAX_DIGIS) {
>> -			dev_put(dev);
>> +		if ((dev = nr_ax25_dev_get(nr_route.device)) == NULL)
>>  			return -EINVAL;
>> -		}
>>  		switch (nr_route.type) {
>>  		case NETROM_NODE:
>>  			if (strnlen(nr_route.mnemonic, 7) == 7) {
> 
> I realy do not know if that matters but some use AX25_MAX_DIGIS as array
> and therefore it should be >=AX25_MAX_DIGIS.
> 
> struct rose_route_struct {
>          rose_address    address;
>         unsigned short  mask;
>         ax25_address    neighbour;
>         char            device[16];
>          unsigned char   ndigis;
>          ax25_address    digipeaters[AX25_MAX_DIGIS];
>   };
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