From: Colin Ian King <colin.king@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> The end of buffer check is off-by-one since the check is against an index that is pre-incremented before a store to buf[]. Fix this adjusting the bounds check appropriately. Addresses-Coverity: ("Out-of-bounds write") Fixes: 51bd6f291583 ("Add support for IPMB driver") Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/char/ipmi/ipmb_dev_int.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmb_dev_int.c b/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmb_dev_int.c index 9fdae83e59e0..382b28f1cf2f 100644 --- a/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmb_dev_int.c +++ b/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmb_dev_int.c @@ -279,7 +279,7 @@ static int ipmb_slave_cb(struct i2c_client *client, break; case I2C_SLAVE_WRITE_RECEIVED: - if (ipmb_dev->msg_idx >= sizeof(struct ipmb_msg)) + if (ipmb_dev->msg_idx >= sizeof(struct ipmb_msg) - 1) break; buf[++ipmb_dev->msg_idx] = *val; -- 2.24.0