Re: [PATCH v2] brcmfmac: Fix off by one bug in brcmf_count_20mhz_channels()

[Arend van Spriel]

On 09/23/14 00:49, Emil Goode wrote:
> In the brcmf_count_20mhz_channels function we are looping through a list
> of channels received from firmware. Since the index of the first channel
> is 0 the condition leads to an off by one bug. This is causing us to hit
> the WARN_ON_ONCE(1) calls in the brcmu_d11n_decchspec function, which is
> how I discovered the bug.
>
> Introduced by:
> commit b48d891676f756d48b4d0ee131e4a7a5d43ca417
> ("brcmfmac: rework wiphy structure setup")

Hi John,

This bug was introduced in 3.17 so can it still go in the wireless tree? 
I verified it applies to wireless/master branch.

Regards,
Arend

> Acked-by: Arend van Spriel<arend@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Emil Goode<emilgoode@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> v2: Added Arends "Acked-by" tag.
>
>   drivers/net/wireless/brcm80211/brcmfmac/wl_cfg80211.c | 2 +-
>   1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/brcm80211/brcmfmac/wl_cfg80211.c b/drivers/net/wireless/brcm80211/brcmfmac/wl_cfg80211.c
> index 12a60ca..0517687 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/wireless/brcm80211/brcmfmac/wl_cfg80211.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/brcm80211/brcmfmac/wl_cfg80211.c
> @@ -4924,7 +4924,7 @@ static void brcmf_count_20mhz_channels(struct brcmf_cfg80211_info *cfg,
>   	struct brcmu_chan ch;
>   	int i;
>
> -	for (i = 0; i<= total; i++) {
> +	for (i = 0; i<  total; i++) {
>   		ch.chspec = (u16)le32_to_cpu(chlist->element[i]);
>   		cfg->d11inf.decchspec(&ch);

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