Re: [PATCH] staging: zcache: make sure client id is valid

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On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 12:57:50PM +0800, Yuanhan Liu wrote:
> Signed-off-by: Yuanhan Liu <yuanhan.liu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---

Why?  What is this solving/fixing/doing?

>  drivers/staging/zcache/zcache-main.c |    6 +++++-
>  1 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/staging/zcache/zcache-main.c b/drivers/staging/zcache/zcache-main.c
> index 52b43b7..fb68af6 100644
> --- a/drivers/staging/zcache/zcache-main.c
> +++ b/drivers/staging/zcache/zcache-main.c
> @@ -68,10 +68,14 @@ static struct zcache_client zcache_clients[MAX_CLIENTS];
>  
>  static inline uint16_t get_client_id_from_client(struct zcache_client *cli)
>  {
> +	uint16_t cli_id;
> +
>  	BUG_ON(cli == NULL);
>  	if (cli == &zcache_host)
>  		return LOCAL_CLIENT;
> -	return cli - &zcache_clients[0];
> +	cli_id = cli - &zcache_clients[0];
> +	BUG_ON(cli_id > MAX_CLIENTS);

How nice, you just crashed the whole machine.  Don't do that.

greg k-h
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