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

[Eric Sesterhenn / Snakebyte <snakebyte@gmx.de>]

* Dmitry Torokhov (dtor@insightbb.com) wrote:
> On Wednesday 05 July 2006 20:49, Eric Sesterhenn / Snakebyte wrote:
> > I looked at this code several times too, and tried to reproduce the bug
> > with the following little program:
> > 
> > #include <string.h>
> > int main(int argc, char **argv) {
> > 	char foo[] = "abcdef";
> > 	int i = 0;
> > 
> > 	foo[strlen(foo)] = 'X';
> > 	do {
> > 		putchar(foo[i]);
> > 	} while (++i < sizeof(foo));
> > }
> > 
> > Which clearly shows that the terminating '\0' gets printed too,
> > replaced by the X for better visibility, so the code
> > runs past the array, or did I fail to replicate the original
> > code somewhere?
> > 
> 
> What do you mean "the code runs past the array"? The size of array is 7
> (compiler allocates the space for terminating '\0') and the array is
> printed in its entirety.

arg, of course \0 is part of the array, sorry bothering you guys
with this stuff :( Another coverity report i analyzed incorrect... :(

Eric
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