netdev - Re: [PATCH][next] wil6210: fix wil_cid

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Message-Id: <20190904060544.C65D96115D@smtp.codeaurora.org>
Date:   Wed,  4 Sep 2019 06:05:44 +0000 (UTC)
From:   Kalle Valo <kvalo@...eaurora.org>
To:     Colin King <colin.king@...onical.com>
Cc:     Maya Erez <merez@...eaurora.org>,
        "David S . Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org, wil6210@....qualcomm.com,
        netdev@...r.kernel.org, kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH][next] wil6210: fix wil_cid_valid with negative cid values

Colin King <colin.king@...onical.com> wrote:

> There are several occasions where a negative cid value is passed
> into wil_cid_valid and this is converted into a u8 causing the
> range check of cid >= 0 to always succeed.  Fix this by making
> the cid argument an int to handle any -ve error value of cid.
> 
> An example of this behaviour is in wil_cfg80211_dump_station,
> where cid is assigned -ENOENT if the call to wil_find_cid_by_idx
> fails, and this -ve value is passed to wil_cid_valid.  I believe
> that the conversion of -ENOENT to the u8 value 254 which is
> greater than wil->max_assoc_sta causes wil_find_cid_by_idx to
> currently work fine, but I think is by luck and not the
> intended behaviour.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king@...onical.com>
> Reviewed-by: Maya Erez <merez@...eaurora.org>
> Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@...eaurora.org>

Patch applied to ath-next branch of ath.git, thanks.

23bb9f692b66 wil6210: fix wil_cid_valid with negative cid values

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https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/11027989/

https://wireless.wiki.kernel.org/en/developers/documentation/submittingpatches