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Re: [PATCH] perf tools: fix off-by-one comparison on maximum code

From Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: [PATCH] perf tools: fix off-by-one comparison on maximum code
Date 2016-04-26 01:30 +0200
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Em Sun, Apr 24, 2016 at 07:56:43PM +0100, Colin King escreveu:
> From: Colin Ian King <colin.king@canonical.com>
> 
> The check for the maximum code is off-by-one; the current
> comparison of a code that is INTEL_PT_ERR_MAX will cause the
> strlcpy to perform an out of bounds array access on the
> intel_pt_err_msgs array. Fix this with a >= comparison.

Applied, thanks.

- Arnaldo
 
> Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king@canonical.com>
> ---
>  tools/perf/util/intel-pt-decoder/intel-pt-decoder.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/tools/perf/util/intel-pt-decoder/intel-pt-decoder.c b/tools/perf/util/intel-pt-decoder/intel-pt-decoder.c
> index 9409d01..9c8f15d 100644
> --- a/tools/perf/util/intel-pt-decoder/intel-pt-decoder.c
> +++ b/tools/perf/util/intel-pt-decoder/intel-pt-decoder.c
> @@ -356,7 +356,7 @@ static const char *intel_pt_err_msgs[] = {
>  
>  int intel_pt__strerror(int code, char *buf, size_t buflen)
>  {
> -	if (code < 1 || code > INTEL_PT_ERR_MAX)
> +	if (code < 1 || code >= INTEL_PT_ERR_MAX)
>  		code = INTEL_PT_ERR_UNK;
>  	strlcpy(buf, intel_pt_err_msgs[code], buflen);
>  	return 0;
> -- 
> 2.7.4

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[PATCH] perf tools: fix off-by-one comparison on maximum code Colin King <colin.king@canonical.com> - 2016-04-24 21:00 +0200
  Re: [PATCH] perf tools: fix off-by-one comparison on maximum code Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org> - 2016-04-26 01:30 +0200
  [tip:perf/core] perf intel-pt: Fix off-by-one comparison on maximum  code tip-bot for Colin Ian King <tipbot@zytor.com> - 2016-04-27 17:40 +0200

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