Re: [patch] dell-laptop: fix kbd_timeout handling

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On Wed, Dec 03, 2014 at 01:01:59PM +0300, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> The original code had a static checker warning:
> 
> 	drivers/platform/x86/dell-laptop.c:1389 kbd_led_timeout_store()
> 	warn: this array is probably non-NULL. 'quirks->kbd_timeouts'
> 
> This warning does indicate a bug.  I have added a .needs_kbd_timeouts
> flag which is true if the .kbd_timeouts[] array has been declared.
> Otherwise, in the original code the quirk_dell_vostro_v130 struct didn't
> have .kbd_timeouts[] declared so the loop:
> 
> 	for (i = 0; quirks->kbd_timeouts[i] != -1; i++) {
> 
> Would have read beyond the end of the struct with unpredictable results.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx>


Thanks Dan,

Pali, any objections?

Dan, any objection to Pali rolling this into another revision? No point in
introducing the bug to next and mainline.

Thanks,

-- 
Darren Hart
Intel Open Source Technology Center
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