Re: [PATCH] iio: ad5755: fix off-by-one on devnr limit check

From: Jonathan Cameron
Date: Sun Aug 21 2016 - 15:30:44 EST


On 25/07/16 23:40, Colin King wrote:
> From: Colin Ian King <colin.king@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> The comparison for devnr limits is off-by-one, the current check
> allows 0 to AD5755_NUM_CHANNELS and the limit should be in fact
> 0 to AD5755_NUM_CHANNELS - 1. This can lead to an out of bounds
> write to pdata->dac[devnr]. Fix this by replacing > with >= on the
> comparison.
>
> Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Lars?

Looks correct to me.

I'd also like a fixes tag for this if possible. Guessing it
might well be the original driver introduction but best to be
sure ;)

Jonathan
> ---
> drivers/iio/dac/ad5755.c | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/iio/dac/ad5755.c b/drivers/iio/dac/ad5755.c
> index 0fde593..5f79682 100644
> --- a/drivers/iio/dac/ad5755.c
> +++ b/drivers/iio/dac/ad5755.c
> @@ -655,7 +655,7 @@ static struct ad5755_platform_data *ad5755_parse_dt(struct device *dev)
>
> devnr = 0;
> for_each_child_of_node(np, pp) {
> - if (devnr > AD5755_NUM_CHANNELS) {
> + if (devnr >= AD5755_NUM_CHANNELS) {
> dev_err(dev,
> "There is to many channels defined in DT\n");
> goto error_out;
>