[PATCH v2 1/2] staging: rtl8192e: Fix incorrect source in memcpy()

Atul Gopinathan atulgopinathan at gmail.com
Tue Mar 23 17:29:07 UTC 2021


On Tue, Mar 23, 2021 at 04:58:11PM +0300, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> Reviewed-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter at oracle.com>
> 
> This is very clever detective work.  How did you spot the bug?

I remember trying to investigate a sparse warning couple of weeks ago in
the same file and went through the code when my eyes caught a struct
pointer being indexed, which looked wierd. On further reading of the
code and trying to make sense of what was happening (especially after
calculating the size of the pointer) I became sure that it wasn't
correct.

The first patch led me to the second patch as they were related,
"CcxRmState" was used in the same memcpy() of the first patch. I caught
the error in it's type while trying to fix the first.

Thank you for your encouraging words :D

Regards,
Atul


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