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cpufreq: brcmstb-avs-cpufreq: AVS CPUfreq driver for Broadcom STB SoCs

bug report Dan Carpenter 1 participant 1 message Nov 11, 2016

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Hello Markus Mayer,

The patch de322e085995: "cpufreq: brcmstb-avs-cpufreq: AVS CPUfreq driver for Broadcom STB SoCs" from Oct 27, 2016, leads to the following static checker warning:

drivers/cpufreq/brcmstb-avs-cpufreq.c:509 brcm_avs_get_freq_table()
error: buffer overflow 'table' 5 <= 5

drivers/cpufreq/brcmstb-avs-cpufreq.c

   485  static struct cpufreq_frequency_table *
   486  brcm_avs_get_freq_table(struct device *dev, struct private_data *priv)
   487  {
   488          struct cpufreq_frequency_table *table;
   489          unsigned int pstate;
   490          int i, ret;
   491  
   492          /* Remember P-state for later */
   493          ret = brcm_avs_get_pstate(priv, &pstate);
   494          if (ret)

495 return ERR_PTR(ret);
496
497 table = devm_kzalloc(dev, (AVS_PSTATE_MAX + 1) * sizeof(*table),
498 GFP_KERNEL);
499 if (!table)
500 return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM);
501
502 for (i = AVS_PSTATE_P0; i <= AVS_PSTATE_MAX; i++) {

I guess this should be < instead of <=.

   503                  ret = brcm_avs_set_pstate(priv, i);
   504                  if (ret)
   505                          return ERR_PTR(ret);
   506                  table[i].frequency = brcm_avs_get_frequency(priv->base);
   507                  table[i].driver_data = i;
   508          }
   509          table[i].frequency = CPUFREQ_TABLE_END;

Otherwise we're always writing one element beyond the end of the array here.

   510  
   511          /* Restore P-state */
   512          ret = brcm_avs_set_pstate(priv, pstate);
   513          if (ret)
   514                  return ERR_PTR(ret);
   515  
   516          return table;
   517  }

regards,
dan carpenter