[alsa-devel] [patch] riptide: clean up while loop
Dan Carpenter
error27 at gmail.com
Wed Mar 3 08:13:49 CET 2010
If getpaths() returned an odd number this would be a buffer under-run and an
endless loop. It turns out that getpaths() can only return even numbers, but
let's make it easy for people auditing code. With the new code you don't
need to look at getpaths().
This silences a smatch warning.
Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <error27 at gmail.com>
diff --git a/sound/pci/riptide/riptide.c b/sound/pci/riptide/riptide.c
index e66ef2b..a5924af 100644
--- a/sound/pci/riptide/riptide.c
+++ b/sound/pci/riptide/riptide.c
@@ -1974,9 +1974,9 @@ snd_riptide_proc_read(struct snd_info_entry *entry,
}
snd_iprintf(buffer, "Paths:\n");
i = getpaths(cif, p);
- while (i--) {
- snd_iprintf(buffer, "%x->%x ", p[i - 1], p[i]);
- i--;
+ while (i >= 2) {
+ i -= 2;
+ snd_iprintf(buffer, "%x->%x ", p[i], p[i + 1]);
}
snd_iprintf(buffer, "\n");
}
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