[alsa-devel] [PATCH] hda: add bounds checking for the codec command fields v2

Wu Fengguang fengguang.wu at intel.com
Fri Jul 17 13:10:51 CEST 2009


On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 06:53:24PM +0800, Takashi Iwai wrote:
> At Fri, 17 Jul 2009 12:46:01 +0200,
> I wrote:
> > 
> > At Fri, 17 Jul 2009 18:41:05 +0800,
> > Guo, Chaohong wrote:
> > > 
> > > Although it does address this issue, I am not comfortable with this fixing. 
> > > It seems more like a workaround than fix.
> > 
> > No, it's rather for catching a bug.  This is definitely neither
> > "workaround" nor "fix".
> 
> BTW, I fixed the patch again as below.
> 
> 
> Takashi
> 
> ---
> >From 82e1b804b03defe46fb69ffd2c8b19e6649bcb0d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Takashi Iwai <tiwai at suse.de>
> Date: Fri, 17 Jul 2009 12:47:34 +0200
> Subject: [PATCH] ALSA: hda - Fix the previous sanity check in make_codec_cmd()
> 
> The newly added sanity-check for a codec verb can be better written
> with logical ORs.  Also, the parameter can be more than 8bit.

Ah OK, thanks for the fix!

Thanks,
Fengguang


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