Message-ID: <542138EB.40708@broadcom.com> (sfid-20140923_111049_730200_842DA01C)
Date: Tue, 23 Sep 2014 11:10:03 +0200
From: Arend van Spriel <arend@broadcom.com>
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To: Emil Goode <emilgoode@gmail.com>
CC: Brett Rudley <brudley@broadcom.com>,
	"Franky (Zhenhui) Lin" <frankyl@broadcom.com>,
	Hante Meuleman <meuleman@broadcom.com>,
	"John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>,
	Pieter-Paul Giesberts <pieterpg@broadcom.com>,
	Daniel Kim <dekim@broadcom.com>,
	<linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org>,
	<brcm80211-dev-list@broadcom.com>, <netdev@vger.kernel.org>,
	<linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, <kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] brcmfmac: Fix off by one bug in brcmf_count_20mhz_channels()
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On 09/23/14 00:49, Emil Goode wrote:
> In the brcmf_count_20mhz_channels function we are looping through a list
> of channels received from firmware. Since the index of the first channel
> is 0 the condition leads to an off by one bug. This is causing us to hit
> the WARN_ON_ONCE(1) calls in the brcmu_d11n_decchspec function, which is
> how I discovered the bug.
>
> Introduced by:
> commit b48d891676f756d48b4d0ee131e4a7a5d43ca417
> ("brcmfmac: rework wiphy structure setup")
>

Hi John,

This bug was introduced in 3.17 so can it still go in the wireless tree? 
I verified it applies to wireless/master branch.

Regards,
Arend

> Acked-by: Arend van Spriel<arend@broadcom.com>
> Signed-off-by: Emil Goode<emilgoode@gmail.com>
> ---
> v2: Added Arends "Acked-by" tag.
>
>   drivers/net/wireless/brcm80211/brcmfmac/wl_cfg80211.c | 2 +-
>   1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/brcm80211/brcmfmac/wl_cfg80211.c b/drivers/net/wireless/brcm80211/brcmfmac/wl_cfg80211.c
> index 12a60ca..0517687 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/wireless/brcm80211/brcmfmac/wl_cfg80211.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/brcm80211/brcmfmac/wl_cfg80211.c
> @@ -4924,7 +4924,7 @@ static void brcmf_count_20mhz_channels(struct brcmf_cfg80211_info *cfg,
>   	struct brcmu_chan ch;
>   	int i;
>
> -	for (i = 0; i<= total; i++) {
> +	for (i = 0; i<  total; i++) {
>   		ch.chspec = (u16)le32_to_cpu(chlist->element[i]);
>   		cfg->d11inf.decchspec(&ch);
>