Re: [patch] x86, efi: fix pointer math issue in handle_ramdisks()

[Ingo Molnar]

* Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> "filename" is a efi_char16_t string so this check for reaching 
> the end of the array doesn't work.  We need to cast it to char 
> pointer before doing the math.

That name should really be changed, 'filename' is a char * by 
convention pretty much everywhere in the kernel - so the current 
naming is highly misleading and results in bugs like this.

filename_16, filename_2byte or filename_UTF or so would be 
suggestive enough to avoid such mishaps in the future.

> @@ -559,7 +559,7 @@ static efi_status_t handle_ramdisks(efi_loaded_image_t *image,
>  			str++;
>  
>  		while (*str && *str != ' ' && *str != '\n') {
> -			if (p >= filename + sizeof(filename))
> +			if ((char *)p >= (char *)filename + sizeof(filename))
>  				break;

I'd also make that void *, because this isnt really a C 
character string anymore.

Thanks,

	Ingo
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