mysterious -1 offset in staging rt2860 driver
walter harms
wharms at bfs.de
Fri Mar 5 09:44:37 UTC 2010
Dan Carpenter schrieb:
> So here is a mystery for people who enjoy such mysterious things.
>
> drivers/staging/rt2860/sta_ioctl.c +1020 rt_ioctl_giwscan(219)
> 1011 if (CAP_IS_PRIVACY_ON
> 1012 (pAdapter->ScanTab.BssEntry[i].CapabilityInfo))
> 1013 iwe.u.data.flags = IW_ENCODE_ENABLED | IW_ENCODE_NOKEY;
> 1014 else
> 1015 iwe.u.data.flags = IW_ENCODE_DISABLED;
> 1016
> 1017 __smatch_value("iwe.u.data.flags");
> 1018 previous_ev = current_ev;
> 1019 current_ev =
> 1020 iwe_stream_add_point(info, current_ev, end_buf, &iwe,
> 1021 (char *)pAdapter->
> 1022 SharedKey[BSS0][(iwe.u.data.
> 1023 flags &
> 1024 IW_ENCODE_INDEX) -
> 1025 1].Key);
>
>
> That last bit is easier to read if it's on one line.
>
> SharedKey[BSS0][(iwe.u.data.flags & IW_ENCODE_INDEX) - 1].Key);
>
> iwe.u.data.flags is either 0x0400 or 0x8000. IW_ENCODE_INDEX is 0xff, so
> after we mask off the lower bits we get 0x00 and then we subtract 1 we get
> an array offset of -1.
>
> I doubt that's what we want, but what _do_ we want here?
I used http://tomoyo.sourceforge.jp/cgi-bin/lxr/ident?i=IW_ENCODE_INDEX to get an idea,
and it seems most times the index is protected by
if ( idx<0) what seems to indicate that the index should start with 1 (very wired).
NTL this is unreadable code and should be desected.
perhaps:
idx=iwe.u.data.flags & IW_ENCODE_INDEX) - 1
char *key=pAdapter->SharedKey[BSS0][idx].key
but i have still no idea about this -1 it does not fit well.
just my 2 cents,
walter
> regards,
> dan carpenter
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