Re: [PATCH v2] staging: iio: tsl2x7x: clean up limit checks

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On Sat, Sep 16, 2017 at 01:11:29PM +0200, Paolo Cretaro wrote:
> Hi Dan,
> just minor nitpicking on the commit message:
> 
> On 08/09/2017 12:53, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> > The background of this code is that we can either use the default
> > tables or load our own table with sysfs.  The default tables are three
> > element arrays of struct tsl2x7x_lux.  If we load the table with sysfs
> > then we can have as many as nine elements.  Which ever way we do it, the
> > last element is always zeroed out.
> > 
> > The most interesting part of this patch is in the
> > in_illuminance0_lux_table_show() function.  We were using the wrong
> > limit, "TSL2X7X_MAX_LUX_TABLE_SIZE * 3", when it should have been just
> > "TSL2X7X_MAX_LUX_TABLE_SIZE".  This creates a static checker warning
> > that we are going of of bounds.  However, since the last element is
> out of bounds
> 
> Regards,
> P.
> 
> > always zeroed out, that means we hit the break statement and the code
> > works correctly despite the wrong limit check.

What?  No no.  I meant it how I wrote it.  The last element is
always zeroed out meaning it's just a series of zeroes.

regards,
dan carpenter

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