[PATCH] memory: brcmstb_dpfe: fix array index out of bounds

Florian Fainelli f.fainelli at gmail.com
Thu Aug 20 23:15:04 EDT 2020



On 8/20/2020 6:03 PM, Markus Mayer wrote:
> We would overrun the error_text array if we hit a TIMEOUT condition,
> because we were using the error code "ETIMEDOUT" (which is 110) as an
> array index.
> 
> We fix the problem by correcting the array index and by providing a
> function to retrieve error messages rather than accessing the array
> directly. The function includes a bounds check that prevents the array
> from being overrun.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Markus Mayer <mmayer at broadcom.com>

Acked-by: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli at gmail.com>
Fixes: 2f330caff577 ("memory: brcmstb: Add driver for DPFE")
Reported-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king at canonical.com>

(Colin, was there a specific coverity ID you wanted to use?)
-- 
Florian



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