linux-kernel - [PATCH] staging: rtl8192u: fix potential infinite loop because loop counter being too small

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Date:   Fri,  1 Nov 2019 14:26:04 +0000
From:   Colin King <colin.king@...onical.com>
To:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@...nel.org>,
        devel@...verdev.osuosl.org
Cc:     kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] staging: rtl8192u: fix potential infinite loop because loop counter being too small

From: Colin Ian King <colin.king@...onical.com>

Currently the for-loop counter i is a u8 however it is being checked
against a maximum value priv->ieee80211->LinkDetectInfo.SlotNum which is a
u16. Hence there is a potential wrap-around of counter i back to zero if
priv->ieee80211->LinkDetectInfo.SlotNum is greater than 255.  Fix this by
making i a u16.

Addresses-Coverity: ("Infinite loop")
Fixes: 8fc8598e61f6 ("Staging: Added Realtek rtl8192u driver to staging")
Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king@...onical.com>
---
 drivers/staging/rtl8192u/r8192U_core.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/staging/rtl8192u/r8192U_core.c b/drivers/staging/rtl8192u/r8192U_core.c
index 48f1591ed5b4..fd91b7c5ca81 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/rtl8192u/r8192U_core.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/rtl8192u/r8192U_core.c
@@ -3210,7 +3210,7 @@ static void rtl819x_update_rxcounts(struct r8192_priv *priv, u32 *TotalRxBcnNum,
 			     u32 *TotalRxDataNum)
 {
 	u16			SlotIndex;
-	u8			i;
+	u16			i;
 
 	*TotalRxBcnNum = 0;
 	*TotalRxDataNum = 0;
-- 
2.20.1