linux-kernel - [PATCH] USB: storage: avoid use of uninitialized values in error path

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Message-Id: <20201112191255.13372-1-lukas.bulwahn@gmail.com>
Date:   Thu, 12 Nov 2020 20:12:55 +0100
From:   Lukas Bulwahn <lukas.bulwahn@...il.com>
To:     Alan Stern <stern@...land.harvard.edu>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        linux-usb@...r.kernel.org, usb-storage@...ts.one-eyed-alien.net
Cc:     Tom Rix <trix@...hat.com>,
        Nathan Chancellor <natechancellor@...il.com>,
        Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@...gle.com>,
        clang-built-linux@...glegroups.com,
        kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org, linux-safety@...ts.elisa.tech,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Lukas Bulwahn <lukas.bulwahn@...il.com>
Subject: [PATCH] USB: storage: avoid use of uninitialized values in error path

When usb_stor_bulk_transfer_sglist() returns with USB_STOR_XFER_ERROR, it
returns without writing to its parameter *act_len.

Further, the two callers of usb_stor_bulk_transfer_sglist():

    usb_stor_bulk_srb() and
    usb_stor_bulk_transfer_sg(),

use the passed variable partial without checking the return value. Hence,
the uninitialized value of partial is then used in the further execution
of those two functions.

Clang-analyzer detects this potential control and data flow and warns:

  drivers/usb/storage/transport.c:469:40:
    warning: The right operand of '-' is a garbage value
    [clang-analyzer-core.UndefinedBinaryOperatorResult]
          scsi_set_resid(srb, scsi_bufflen(srb) - partial);
                                                ^

  drivers/usb/storage/transport.c:495:15:
    warning: Assigned value is garbage or undefined
    [clang-analyzer-core.uninitialized.Assign]
                  length_left -= partial;
                              ^

When a transfer error occurs, the *act_len value is probably ignored by the
higher layers. But it won't hurt to set it to a valid number, just in case.

For the two early-return paths in usb_stor_bulk_transfer_sglist(), the
amount of data transferred is 0.  So if act_len is not NULL, set *act_len
to 0 in those paths. That makes clang-analyzer happy.

Proposal was discussed in this mail thread:

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-usb/alpine.DEB.2.21.2011112146110.13119@felia/

Signed-off-by: Lukas Bulwahn <lukas.bulwahn@...il.com>
---
applies cleanly on current master and next-20201112

I did some basic compile testing...

Alan, Greg, please pick this minor non-urgent clean-up patch.

 drivers/usb/storage/transport.c | 9 +++++++--
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/usb/storage/transport.c b/drivers/usb/storage/transport.c
index 238a8088e17f..5eb895b19c55 100644
--- a/drivers/usb/storage/transport.c
+++ b/drivers/usb/storage/transport.c
@@ -416,7 +416,7 @@ static int usb_stor_bulk_transfer_sglist(struct us_data *us, unsigned int pipe,
 
 	/* don't submit s-g requests during abort processing */
 	if (test_bit(US_FLIDX_ABORTING, &us->dflags))
-		return USB_STOR_XFER_ERROR;
+		goto usb_stor_xfer_error;
 
 	/* initialize the scatter-gather request block */
 	usb_stor_dbg(us, "xfer %u bytes, %d entries\n", length, num_sg);
@@ -424,7 +424,7 @@ static int usb_stor_bulk_transfer_sglist(struct us_data *us, unsigned int pipe,
 			sg, num_sg, length, GFP_NOIO);
 	if (result) {
 		usb_stor_dbg(us, "usb_sg_init returned %d\n", result);
-		return USB_STOR_XFER_ERROR;
+		goto usb_stor_xfer_error;
 	}
 
 	/*
@@ -452,6 +452,11 @@ static int usb_stor_bulk_transfer_sglist(struct us_data *us, unsigned int pipe,
 		*act_len = us->current_sg.bytes;
 	return interpret_urb_result(us, pipe, length, result,
 			us->current_sg.bytes);
+
+usb_stor_xfer_error:
+	if (act_len)
+		*act_len = 0;
+	return USB_STOR_XFER_ERROR;
 }
 
 /*
-- 
2.17.1