netdev - Re: [PATCH] Bluetooth: add timeout sanity check to hci

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Message-ID: <c3e1a8ca-2ded-f992-a1c3-d144397a7b2a@gmail.com>
Date:   Thu, 19 Aug 2021 18:09:58 +0300
From:   Pavel Skripkin <paskripkin@...il.com>
To:     Marcel Holtmann <marcel@...tmann.org>
Cc:     Johan Hedberg <johan.hedberg@...il.com>,
        Luiz Augusto von Dentz <luiz.dentz@...il.com>,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        linux-bluetooth@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        syzbot+be2baed593ea56c6a84c@...kaller.appspotmail.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Bluetooth: add timeout sanity check to hci_inquiry

On 8/19/21 6:05 PM, Marcel Holtmann wrote:
> Hi Pavel,
> 
>> 	}
>> 
> 
> 	/* Restrict maximum inquiry length to 60 seconds */
> 	if (ir.length > 60) {
> 		..
> 	}
> 
>> +	if (ir.length > HCI_INQUIRY_MAX_TIMEOUT) {
>> +		err = -EINVAL;
>> +		goto done;
>> +	}
>> +
> 
> I found this easier to read than adding anything define somewhere else. And since this is a legacy interface that is no longer used by bluetoothd, this should be fine. We will start to deprecate this eventually.
> 
> And I prefer 1 minute max time here. Just to be safe.
> 

I thought, that user-space should be aware of maximum value, that's why 
I decided to add this define :) I didn't know, that this interface is 
legacy.

Will fix in v2, thank you!


With regards,
Pavel Skripkin