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Message-ID: <20240723173956.GA97837@kernel.org>
Date: Tue, 23 Jul 2024 18:39:56 +0100
From: Simon Horman <horms@...nel.org>
To: Ma Ke <make24@...as.ac.cn>
Cc: davem@...emloft.net, edumazet@...gle.com, kuba@...nel.org,
pabeni@...hat.com, liujunliang_ljl@....com,
linux-usb@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] USB2NET: SR9700: fix uninitialized variable use in
sr_mdio_read
On Tue, Jul 23, 2024 at 10:04:34PM +0800, Ma Ke wrote:
> It could lead to error happen because the variable res is not updated if
> the call to sr_share_read_word returns an error. In this particular case
> error code was returned and res stayed uninitialized.
>
> This can be avoided by checking the return value of sr_share_read_word
> and propagating the error if the read operation failed.
>
> Fixes: c9b37458e956 ("USB2NET : SR9700 : One chip USB 1.1 USB2NET SR9700Device Driver Support")
> Signed-off-by: Ma Ke <make24@...as.ac.cn>
Hi Ma Ke,
As this is a fix, with a fixes tag (good!), it should probably be targeted
at the net tree (as opposed to net-next). The target tree for
networking patches should be included in the Subject.
Subject: [PATCH net] ...
Looking at git history, it seems that an appropriate prefix for this patch
would be net: "net: usb: sr9700: "
Subject: [PATCH net] net: usb: sr9700: ...
And, skipping ahead, please do consider reading, especially the bit about 24h.
https://docs.kernel.org/process/maintainer-netdev.html
> ---
> drivers/net/usb/sr9700.c | 6 +++++-
> 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/net/usb/sr9700.c b/drivers/net/usb/sr9700.c
> index 0a662e42ed96..d5bc596f4521 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/usb/sr9700.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/usb/sr9700.c
> @@ -179,6 +179,7 @@ static int sr_mdio_read(struct net_device *netdev, int phy_id, int loc)
> struct usbnet *dev = netdev_priv(netdev);
> __le16 res;
> int rc = 0;
> + int err;
>
> if (phy_id) {
> netdev_dbg(netdev, "Only internal phy supported\n");
> @@ -193,7 +194,10 @@ static int sr_mdio_read(struct net_device *netdev, int phy_id, int loc)
> if (value & NSR_LINKST)
> rc = 1;
> }
> - sr_share_read_word(dev, 1, loc, &res);
> + err = sr_share_read_word(dev, 1, loc, &res);
> + if (err < 0)
> + return err;
> +
I agree that this fixes a possible error condition.
But I wonder if there are not more similar problems in this
file. E.g. the call to sr_read_reg() which seeds value
which is used at the top of this hunk.
> if (rc == 1)
> res = le16_to_cpu(res) | BMSR_LSTATUS;
> else
> --
> 2.25.1
>
>
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