Re: [PATCH AUTOSEL 5.10 113/137] wireless: wext-spy: Fix out-of-bounds warning
From: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Date: 2021-07-06 14:58:01
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linux-wireless, lkml, netdev
From: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Date: 2021-07-06 14:58:01
Also in:
linux-wireless, lkml, netdev
On Tue, 2021-07-06 at 07:21 -0400, Sasha Levin wrote:
From: "Gustavo A. R. Silva" <gustavoars@kernel.org> [ Upstream commit e93bdd78406da9ed01554c51e38b2a02c8ef8025 ] Fix the following out-of-bounds warning: net/wireless/wext-spy.c:178:2: warning: 'memcpy' offset [25, 28] from the object at 'threshold' is out of the bounds of referenced subobject 'low' with type 'struct iw_quality' at offset 20 [-Warray-bounds]
For the record: while this clearly isn't harmful, there's almost basically no chance that the stable kernel will ever compile warning- free with -Warray-bounds, so there's not much point in backporting this patch. johannes