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SubjectRe: [PATCH] IB/ehca: use correct destination for memcpy
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On Mon, 2015-05-11 at 16:38 +0200, Nicholas Mc Guire wrote:
> Using an element of a struct as the address for the memcpy of the whole
> struct may introduce a buffer overflow and does not help readability either
> simply pass the real thing as first argument to memcpy.
>
> Reported-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
> Signed-off-by: Nicholas Mc Guire <hofrat@osadl.org>
> ---
>
> passing the first element of a struct as destination triggers buffer
> overflows warnings in tools like Smatch.
> ./drivers/infiniband/hw/ehca/ehca_mcast.c:ehca_attach_mcast.80 WARNING:
> memcpy copying entire struct to first element
> ./drivers/infiniband/hw/ehca/ehca_mcast.c:ehca_detach_mcast.117 WARNING:
> memcpy copying entire struct to first element
>
> Simply use the structure rather than the first element (which could change)
> which also help readability.
>
> Patch was only compile tested with ppc64_defconfig (implies
> CONFIG_INFINIBAND_EHCA=m)
>
> Patch is against 4.1-rc3 (localversion-next is -next-20150511)

Applied, thanks.

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Doug Ledford <dledford@redhat.com>
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