netdev - Re: usb/net/rt2x00: warning in rt2800_eeprom_word

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Message-ID: <20171012072529.GB2686@redhat.com>
Date:   Thu, 12 Oct 2017 09:25:30 +0200
From:   Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@...hat.com>
To:     Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@...gle.com>
Cc:     Helmut Schaa <helmut.schaa@...glemail.com>,
        Kalle Valo <kvalo@...eaurora.org>,
        linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org, netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@...gle.com>,
        Kostya Serebryany <kcc@...gle.com>,
        syzkaller <syzkaller@...glegroups.com>
Subject: Re: usb/net/rt2x00: warning in rt2800_eeprom_word_index

Hi

On Mon, Oct 09, 2017 at 07:50:53PM +0200, Andrey Konovalov wrote:
> I've got the following report while fuzzing the kernel with syzkaller.
> 
> On commit 8a5776a5f49812d29fe4b2d0a2d71675c3facf3f (4.14-rc4).
> 
> I'm not sure whether this is a bug in the driver, or just a way to
> report misbehaving device. In the latter case this shouldn't be a
> WARN() call, since WARN() means bug in the kernel.

This is about wrong EEPROM, which reported 3 tx streams on
non 3 antenna device. I think WARN() is justified and thanks
to the call trace I was actually able to to understand what
happened.

In general I do not think WARN() only means a kernel bug, it 
can be F/W or H/W bug too.

Thanks
Stanislaw