[alsa-devel] bug report: aloop: potential signedness bug in loopback_prepare()

Dan Carpenter error27 at gmail.com
Sat Oct 9 13:42:18 CEST 2010


Hi Jaroslav,

sound/drivers/aloop.c +287 loopback_prepare(10)
	warn: bogus compare against zero: 'bps'
   282          unsigned int bps, salign;
   283
   284          salign = (snd_pcm_format_width(runtime->format) *
   285							runtime->channels) / 8;
   286          bps = salign * runtime->rate;
   287          if (bps <= 0 || salign <= 0)
                    ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

	Both "bps" and "salign" are unsigned and are never less than
	zero.  Should this just be checking for == 0?  Or was the check
	supposed to catch integer overflows?

   288                  return -EINVAL;
   289

regards,
dan carpenter


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