linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/2] usb: ehci: Prevent possible modulo by zero

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Date:   Thu, 25 Aug 2022 00:07:21 +0600
From:   Khalid Masum <khalid.masum.92@...il.com>
To:     Alan Stern <stern@...land.harvard.edu>
Cc:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        linux-usb@...r.kernel.org,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] usb: ehci: Prevent possible modulo by zero

> The usb_maxpacket() routine does a two-step computation.  First, it
> looks up the endpoint number in the pipe to get a usb_host_endpoint
> pointer, and then it uses the pointer to get the maxpacket value.
> Coverity complained that the lookup in the first step can fail, and that
> is in fact true: If there is an interface or configuration change before
> usb_maxpacket() is called, the endpoint number table can change and the
> lookup may fail.
>
> But it turns out the first step isn't needed here at all, since the
> endpoint pointer is already stored in the URB (by the code in

That makes sense. Thanks for explaining.
> usb_submit_urb() that I pointed out earlier).  So an appropriate way to
> fix the problem is to carry out just the second step:
>
> -       maxpacket = usb_maxpacket(urb->dev, urb->pipe);
> +       maxpacket = usb_endpoint_maxp(&urb->ep->desc);
>
> This holds for both of your patches.

Got you.
>
> Alan Stern

-- Khalid Masum