Hi Pascal,
Thus wrote Pascal Quantin (pascal.quantin@xxxxxxxxx):
> 2013/9/7 Martin Kaiser <lists@xxxxxxxxx>
> > tvb_new_subset(tvb, 10, (tvb_get_guint8(tvb, 1) - 2), (tvb_get_guint8(tvb,
> > 1) - 2));
> > As for reported_length<-1, it looks like that's ok when the tvb is
> > created. There'll be an exception when it's accessed, we'll always be
> > out of bounds.
> > Is there a valid use case for reported_length<-1?
> I Martin,
> I (wrongly?) assumed that it would automatically throw an exception (as I
> found at least one other code line like this in the source tree) so I did
> not add an explicit check on the size before creating the tvb.
> I do not see any valid use case either.
my mistake. The code of tvb_new_subset() does throw an exception also
for reported_length < -1.
Regards,
Martin
