Re: [Patch] Off by one in drivers/usb/input/yealink.c

[Henk Vergonet <Henk.Vergonet@gmail.com>]

Sorry for the late response guys, but I was on holliday.

No no no, please dont use this.


On Tue, Jun 27, 2006 at 03:51:43PM -0700, Randy.Dunlap wrote:
> On Wed, 28 Jun 2006 00:41:19 +0200 Eric Sesterhenn wrote:
> > another off by one spotted by coverity (id #485),
> > we loop exactly one time too often
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Eric Sesterhenn <snakebyte@gmx.de>
> > 
> > --- linux-2.6.17-git11/drivers/usb/input/yealink.c.orig	2006-06-28 00:29:46.000000000 +0200
> > +++ linux-2.6.17-git11/drivers/usb/input/yealink.c	2006-06-28 00:30:04.000000000 +0200
> > @@ -350,7 +350,7 @@ static int yealink_do_idle_tasks(struct 
> >  		val = yld->master.b[ix];
> >  		if (val != yld->copy.b[ix])
> >  			goto send_update;
> > -	} while (++ix < sizeof(yld->master));
> > +	} while (++ix < sizeof(yld->master)-1);

Apart from introducing a new bug in the code, the construct is ugly.

I would rather see then the more readable:

	ix++;
    } while (ix < sizeof(yld->master));
 
- Henk
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