linux-kernel - [PATCH V4] staging: rtl8192e: Fix signedness bug in rtllib_rx_assoc

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Date:   Fri, 15 Apr 2022 14:15:25 +0800
From:   Haowen Bai <baihaowen@...zu.com>
To:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
CC:     Haowen Bai <baihaowen@...zu.com>, <linux-staging@...ts.linux.dev>,
        <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: [PATCH V4] staging: rtl8192e: Fix signedness bug in rtllib_rx_assoc_resp()

This commit message suggested by Dan Carpenter as below:

The rtllib_rx_assoc_resp() function has a signedness bug because it's
a declared as a u16 but it return -ENOMEM.  When you look at it more
closely it returns a mix of error codes including 0xcafe, -ENOMEM, and
a->status which is WLAN_STATUS_NOT_SUPPORTED_AUTH_ALG.  This is a mess.

Clean it up to just return standard kernel error codes.  We can print
out the a->status before returning a regular error code.  The printks
in the caller need to be adjusted as well.

Signed-off-by: Haowen Bai <baihaowen@...zu.com>
---
V1->V2: reduce return random value; print its own error message.
V2->V3: change commit message; change s16 -> int.
V3->V4: add message suggested by in title.

 drivers/staging/rtl8192e/rtllib_softmac.c | 12 ++++++------
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/staging/rtl8192e/rtllib_softmac.c b/drivers/staging/rtl8192e/rtllib_softmac.c
index 82bf05eb1cbf..4a1b9a94930f 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/rtl8192e/rtllib_softmac.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/rtl8192e/rtllib_softmac.c
@@ -1764,7 +1764,7 @@ static void rtllib_softmac_check_all_nets(struct rtllib_device *ieee)
 	spin_unlock_irqrestore(&ieee->lock, flags);
 }
 
-static inline u16 auth_parse(struct net_device *dev, struct sk_buff *skb,
+static inline int auth_parse(struct net_device *dev, struct sk_buff *skb,
 			     u8 **challenge, int *chlen)
 {
 	struct rtllib_authentication *a;
@@ -1773,7 +1773,7 @@ static inline u16 auth_parse(struct net_device *dev, struct sk_buff *skb,
 	if (skb->len <  (sizeof(struct rtllib_authentication) -
 	    sizeof(struct rtllib_info_element))) {
 		netdev_dbg(dev, "invalid len in auth resp: %d\n", skb->len);
-		return 0xcafe;
+		return -EINVAL;
 	}
 	*challenge = NULL;
 	a = (struct rtllib_authentication *) skb->data;
@@ -1787,7 +1787,7 @@ static inline u16 auth_parse(struct net_device *dev, struct sk_buff *skb,
 				return -ENOMEM;
 		}
 	}
-	return le16_to_cpu(a->status);
+	return a->status;
 }
 
 static int auth_rq_parse(struct net_device *dev, struct sk_buff *skb, u8 *dest)
@@ -2282,7 +2282,7 @@ rtllib_rx_assoc_resp(struct rtllib_device *ieee, struct sk_buff *skb,
 
 static void rtllib_rx_auth_resp(struct rtllib_device *ieee, struct sk_buff *skb)
 {
-	u16 errcode;
+	int errcode;
 	u8 *challenge;
 	int chlen = 0;
 	bool bSupportNmode = true, bHalfSupportNmode = false;
@@ -2292,8 +2292,8 @@ static void rtllib_rx_auth_resp(struct rtllib_device *ieee, struct sk_buff *skb)
 	if (errcode) {
 		ieee->softmac_stats.rx_auth_rs_err++;
 		netdev_info(ieee->dev,
-			    "Authentication response status code 0x%x",
-			    errcode);
+			    "Authentication response status code %d",
+			    le16_to_cpu(errcode));
 		rtllib_associate_abort(ieee);
 		return;
 	}
-- 
2.7.4