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Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2023 09:28:33 +0200
From: Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To: Peter Korsgaard <peter@...sgaard.com>
Cc: Javier Carrasco <javier.carrasco.cruz@...il.com>,
"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>, Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>,
syzbot+1f53a30781af65d2c955@...kaller.appspotmail.com,
netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-usb@...r.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, stable@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] net: usb: dm9601: fix uninitialized variable use in
dm9601_mdio_read
On Tue, Oct 10, 2023 at 09:22:49AM +0200, Peter Korsgaard wrote:
> >>>>> "Greg" == Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org> writes:
>
> > On Tue, Oct 10, 2023 at 08:19:48AM +0200, Peter Korsgaard wrote:
> >> >>>>> "Greg" == Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org> writes:
> >>
> >> > On Tue, Oct 10, 2023 at 12:26:14AM +0200, Javier Carrasco wrote:
> >> >> syzbot has found an uninit-value bug triggered by the dm9601 driver [1].
> >> >>
> >> >> This error happens because the variable res is not updated if the call
> >> >> to dm_read_shared_word returns an error. In this particular case -EPROTO
> >> >> was returned and res stayed uninitialized.
> >> >>
> >> >> This can be avoided by checking the return value of dm_read_shared_word
> >> >> and propagating the error if the read operation failed.
> >> >>
> >> >> [1] https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=1f53a30781af65d2c955
> >> >>
> >> >> Signed-off-by: Javier Carrasco <javier.carrasco.cruz@...il.com>
> >> >> Reported-and-tested-by: syzbot+1f53a30781af65d2c955@...kaller.appspotmail.com
> >> >> ---
> >> >> Changes in v2:
> >> >> - Remove unnecessary 'err == 0' case
> >> >> - Link to v1: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231009-topic-dm9601_uninit_mdio_read-v1-1-d4d775e24e3b@gmail.com
> >> >> ---
> >> >> drivers/net/usb/dm9601.c | 7 ++++++-
> >> >> 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> >>
> >> > What commit id does this fix?
> >>
> >> It has been there since the beginning, so:
> >>
> >> Fixes: d0374f4f9c35cdfbee0 ("USB: Davicom DM9601 usbnet driver")
> >>
> >> Acked-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@...sgaard.com>
>
> > Great, can someone add a cc: stable@ tag for this too please?
>
> Cc: stable@...r.kernel.org
<formletter>
This is not the correct way to submit patches for inclusion in the
stable kernel tree. Please read:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/process/stable-kernel-rules.html
for how to do this properly.
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