Re: question about smatch error

[Dan Carpenter]

On Sun, Jan 16, 2011 at 09:02:52PM -0800, Roland Dreier wrote:
> where eui is a u8*, and I don't see how smatch even thinks it knows how
> big the buffer is in the first place.
> 

It comes from the memcpy:

        memcpy(eui, dev->dev_addr, 3);
        memcpy(eui + 5, dev->dev_addr + 3, 3);

The first line means smatch thinks "eui" is a 3 char buffer.  The second
line gets ignored but normally smatch would see "eui + 5" as a separate
buffer.

Really when it sees the memcpy() that's just a guess about the size, 
I'll disable it by default unless you use the --spammy option.

regards,
dan carpenter

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