On Wed, 9 Dec 2015 16:45:12 +0300 Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Everyone knows I didn't test it but it's an obvious one line fix for > memory corruption. If no one uses the code, at least this is harmless > and silences a static checker warning. > > In olden times we used to say, "Oh this bounds checking is crap but it's > root only so let's leave it alone." But these days we just fix it. > It's easier to just fix everything instead of trying to decide which > bugs are critical. Unfortunately it's all too easy to look down 50 commit messages to an apaprently active file all "fixing small bugs" or "correcting indenting" without realising that every single one of them should have been tagged "[UNTESTED]: " so that anyone looking at the code can see immediately its historical hazardous waste. Alan -- 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
