Re: [PATCH AUTOSEL 5.10 113/137] wireless: wext-spy: Fix out-of-bounds warning

[Johannes Berg]

On Tue, 2021-07-06 at 07:21 -0400, Sasha Levin wrote:
> From: "Gustavo A. R. Silva" <gustavoars@xxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> [ Upstream commit e93bdd78406da9ed01554c51e38b2a02c8ef8025 ]
> 
> Fix the following out-of-bounds warning:
> 
> net/wireless/wext-spy.c:178:2: warning: 'memcpy' offset [25, 28] from the object at 'threshold' is out of the bounds of referenced subobject 'low' with type 'struct iw_quality' at offset 20 [-Warray-bounds]

For the record: while this clearly isn't harmful, there's almost
basically no chance that the stable kernel will ever compile warning-
free with -Warray-bounds, so there's not much point in backporting this
patch.

johannes