netdev - Re: linux-4.9-rc1/drivers/net/wireless/intel/iwlwifi/mvm/debugfs.c:1561: poor error checking ?

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Date:   Mon, 17 Oct 2016 10:58:33 +0300
From:   Luca Coelho <luca@...lho.fi>
To:     David Binderman <dcb314@...mail.com>,
        "johannes.berg@...el.com" <johannes.berg@...el.com>,
        "emmanuel.grumbach@...el.com" <emmanuel.grumbach@...el.com>,
        "linuxwifi@...el.com" <linuxwifi@...el.com>,
        "kvalo@...eaurora.org" <kvalo@...eaurora.org>,
        "linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org" <linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org>,
        "netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re:
 linux-4.9-rc1/drivers/net/wireless/intel/iwlwifi/mvm/debugfs.c:1561: poor
 error checking ?

Hi David,
On Mon, 2016-10-17 at 07:40 +0000, David Binderman wrote:
> Hello there,
> 
> linux-4.9-rc1/drivers/net/wireless/intel/iwlwifi/mvm/debugfs.c:1561]: (style) Checking if unsigned variable 'len' is less than zero.
> 
> Source code is
> 
>     len = min((size_t)le32_to_cpu(rsp->len) << 2,
>           iwl_rx_packet_payload_len(hcmd.resp_pkt) - sizeof(*rsp));
>     len = min(len - delta, count);
>     if (len < 0) {
>         ret = -EFAULT;
>         goto out;
>     }
> 
> Suggest improve error checking.

Thanks for reporting! A fix for this is already queued in our internal
tree and will be sent upstream soon.

--
Cheers,
Luca.