Hello Hannes Reinecke, The patch b6ff1b14cdf4: "[SCSI] scsi_dh: Update EMC handler" from Jul 17, 2008, leads to the following static checker warning: drivers/scsi/device_handler/scsi_dh_emc.c:252 parse_sp_model() warn: buffer overflow 'buffer' 252 <= 255 drivers/scsi/device_handler/scsi_dh_emc.c 217 static char * parse_sp_model(struct scsi_device *sdev, unsigned char *buffer) 218 { 219 unsigned char len = buffer[4] + 5; The warning is simply because Smatch assumes that "len" can be up to 255 since it is a u8. That is likely not a real concern but I think there are some off by one errors. 220 char *sp_model = NULL; 221 unsigned char sp_len, serial_len; 222 223 if (len < 160) { These conditions seem off by one to me. If len == 160 then we can read up to buffer[159]? I think this should be: if (len < 161). 224 sdev_printk(KERN_WARNING, sdev, 225 "%s: Invalid information section length %d\n", 226 CLARIION_NAME, len); 227 /* Check for old FC arrays */ 228 if (!strncmp(buffer + 8, "DGC", 3)) { 229 /* Old FC array, not supporting extended information */ 230 sp_model = emc_default_str; 231 } 232 goto out; 233 } 234 235 /* 236 * Parse extended information for SP model number 237 */ 238 serial_len = buffer[160]; 239 if (serial_len == 0 || serial_len + 161 > len) { Here the > should probably be >=. 240 sdev_printk(KERN_WARNING, sdev, 241 "%s: Invalid array serial number length %d\n", 242 CLARIION_NAME, serial_len); 243 goto out; 244 } 245 sp_len = buffer[99]; 246 if (sp_len == 0 || serial_len + sp_len + 161 > len) { And here as well. 247 sdev_printk(KERN_WARNING, sdev, 248 "%s: Invalid model number length %d\n", 249 CLARIION_NAME, sp_len); 250 goto out; 251 } 252 sp_model = &buffer[serial_len + 161]; Otherwise we are potetially reading from &buffer[len] here which looks off by one. 253 /* Strip whitespace at the end */ 254 while (sp_len > 1 && sp_model[sp_len - 1] == ' ') 255 sp_len--; 256 257 sp_model[sp_len] = '\0'; 258 259 out: 260 return sp_model; 261 } regards, dan carpenter -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html