linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] iio: maxim_thermocouple: return -EINVAL on invalid read size

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Date:   Tue, 25 Oct 2016 21:05:12 +0100
From:   Colin Ian King <colin.king@...onical.com>
To:     Lars-Peter Clausen <lars@...afoo.de>,
        Jonathan Cameron <jic23@...nel.org>,
        Hartmut Knaack <knaack.h@....de>,
        Peter Meerwald-Stadler <pmeerw@...erw.net>,
        sayli karnik <karniksayli1995@...il.com>,
        Matt Ranostay <mranostay@...il.com>,
        Wei Yongjun <weiyongjun1@...wei.com>, linux-iio@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] iio: maxim_thermocouple: return -EINVAL on invalid read
 size

On 25/10/16 20:11, Lars-Peter Clausen wrote:
> On 10/25/2016 09:04 PM, Colin King wrote:
>> From: Colin Ian King <colin.king@...onical.com>
>>
>> In the case that the read size is not 2 or 4 bytes
>> then maxim_thermocouple_read is not initializing ret and
>> hence may return early with a bogus error return or
>> just through to return with a bogos unread value in *val.
>> Fix this by setting ret to -EINVAL for invalid (unhandled)
>> read sizes.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king@...onical.com>
> 
> Again, Arnd already took the prize, https://lkml.org/lkml/2016/10/25/518
> 
Not my day :-)

Colin