This driver has several places that use dynamically sized arrays.
It's dangerous to do that in the kernel because the kernel has a
very small stack. A bug could cause the stack to overflow and
corrupt memory. I seem to recall i2c transfers can be triggered by
the users but I don't know the details (ie security implications).
Here is an example of what I mean:
static int cxd2820r_tuner_i2c_xfer(struct i2c_adapter *i2c_adap,
struct i2c_msg msg[], int num)
{
struct cxd2820r_priv *priv = i2c_get_adapdata(i2c_adap);
u8 obuf[msg[0].len + 2];
^^^^^^^^^^
struct i2c_msg msg2[2] = {
If msg[0].len is too long it will overflow.
Here is the sparse output for the file:
CHECK drivers/media/dvb/frontends/cxd2820r_core.c
drivers/media/dvb/frontends/cxd2820r.h:58:30: error: dubious one-bit signed bitfield
drivers/media/dvb/frontends/cxd2820r.h:64:23: error: dubious one-bit signed bitfield
drivers/media/dvb/frontends/cxd2820r_priv.h:58:26: error: dubious one-bit signed bitfield
drivers/media/dvb/frontends/cxd2820r_priv.h:64:31: error: dubious one-bit signed bitfield
drivers/media/dvb/frontends/cxd2820r_core.c:33:19: error: bad constant expression
drivers/media/dvb/frontends/cxd2820r_core.c:38:32: error: cannot size expression
drivers/media/dvb/frontends/cxd2820r_core.c:61:16: error: bad constant expression
drivers/media/dvb/frontends/cxd2820r_core.c:71:32: error: cannot size expression
drivers/media/dvb/frontends/cxd2820r_core.c:743:28: error: bad constant expression
drivers/media/dvb/frontends/cxd2820r_core.c:748:32: error: cannot size expression
drivers/media/dvb/frontends/cxd2820r_core.c:762:31: error: cannot size expression
CC [M] drivers/media/dvb/frontends/cxd2820r_core.o
regards,
dan carpenter
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