[PATCH 1/2] b43legacy: fix a lower bounds test

Kalle Valo kvalo at codeaurora.org
Sun Oct 10 23:09:53 PDT 2021


Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter at oracle.com> wrote:

> The problem is that "channel" is an unsigned int, when it's less 5 the
> value of "channel - 5" is not a negative number as one would expect but
> is very high positive value instead.
> 
> This means that "start" becomes a very high positive value.  The result
> of that is that we never enter the "for (i = start; i <= end; i++) {"
> loop.  Instead of storing the result from b43legacy_radio_aci_detect()
> it just uses zero.
> 
> Fixes: 75388acd0cd8 ("[B43LEGACY]: add mac80211-based driver for legacy BCM43xx devices")
> Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter at oracle.com>
> Acked-by: Michael Büsch <m at bues.ch>

2 patches applied to wireless-drivers-next.git, thanks.

c1c8380b0320 b43legacy: fix a lower bounds test
9b793db5fca4 b43: fix a lower bounds test

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