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Message-Id: <20190825.195322.56301632454796863.davem@davemloft.net>
Date: Sun, 25 Aug 2019 19:53:22 -0700 (PDT)
From: David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To: pmalani@...omium.org
Cc: hayeswang@...ltek.com, grundler@...omium.org,
netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] r8152: Set memory to all 0xFFs on failed reg reads
From: Prashant Malani <pmalani@...omium.org>
Date: Sat, 24 Aug 2019 01:36:19 -0700
> get_registers() blindly copies the memory written to by the
> usb_control_msg() call even if the underlying urb failed.
>
> This could lead to junk register values being read by the driver, since
> some indirect callers of get_registers() ignore the return values. One
> example is:
> ocp_read_dword() ignores the return value of generic_ocp_read(), which
> calls get_registers().
>
> So, emulate PCI "Master Abort" behavior by setting the buffer to all
> 0xFFs when usb_control_msg() fails.
>
> This patch is copied from the r8152 driver (v2.12.0) published by
> Realtek (www.realtek.com).
>
> Signed-off-by: Prashant Malani <pmalani@...omium.org>
Applied.
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