linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] btusb: fix overflow return values

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Date:	Fri, 5 Jul 2013 10:59:47 +0800
From:	Adam Lee <adam.lee@...onical.com>
To:	Yang Bai <hamo.by@...il.com>
Cc:	linux-bluetooth@...r.kernel.org,
	Wen-chien Jesse Sung <jesse.sung@...onical.com>,
	AceLan Kao <acelan.kao@...onical.com>,
	Tedd Ho-Jeong An <tedd.an@...el.com>,
	Anthony Wong' <anthony.wong@...onical.com>,
	Marcel Holtmann <marcel@...tmann.org>,
	Gustavo Padovan <gustavo@...ovan.org>,
	Johan Hedberg <johan.hedberg@...il.com>,
	open list <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] btusb: fix overflow return values

On Fri, Jul 05, 2013 at 10:37:07AM +0800, Yang Bai wrote:
> The return value of btusb_setup_intel is compared with 0. Code as:
> 
> drivers/bluetooth/btusb.c:
> static int btusb_probe(struct usb_interface *intf,
> const struct usb_device_id *id)
> if (id->driver_info & BTUSB_INTEL)
> hdev->setup = btusb_setup_intel;
> 
> net/bluetooth/hci_core.c:
> int hci_dev_open(__u16 dev)
> if (hdev->setup && test_bit(HCI_SETUP, &hdev->dev_flags))
> ret = hdev->setup(hdev);
> 
> if (!ret) {

Yes, for btusb_setup_intel(), the return value is compared with number
"0", doesn't break the judgement.

But it still overflows stack without this fix.

> On Thu, Jul 4, 2013 at 8:43 PM, Adam Lee <adam.lee@...onical.com> wrote:
> 
>     PTR_ERR() returns a long type value, but btusb_setup_intel() and
>     btusb_setup_intel_patching() should return an int type value.
>
>     This bug makes the judgement "if (ret < 0)" not working on x86_64
>     architecture systems, leading to failure as below, even panic.

-- 
Regards,
Adam Lee
Hardware Enablement
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