Re: [PATCH] net: usb: Fix uninit-was-stored issue in asix_read_phy_addr()

From: Eric Biggers
Date: Thu Aug 27 2020 - 13:52:36 EST


On Thu, Aug 27, 2020 at 12:23:55PM +0530, Himadri Pandya wrote:
> The buffer size is 2 Bytes and we expect to receive the same amount of
> data. But sometimes we receive less data and run into uninit-was-stored
> issue upon read. Hence modify the error check on the return value to match
> with the buffer size as a prevention.
>
> Reported-and-tested by: syzbot+a7e220df5a81d1ab400e@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Signed-off-by: Himadri Pandya <himadrispandya@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> drivers/net/usb/asix_common.c | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/net/usb/asix_common.c b/drivers/net/usb/asix_common.c
> index e39f41efda3e..7bc6e8f856fe 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/usb/asix_common.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/usb/asix_common.c
> @@ -296,7 +296,7 @@ int asix_read_phy_addr(struct usbnet *dev, int internal)
>
> netdev_dbg(dev->net, "asix_get_phy_addr()\n");
>
> - if (ret < 0) {
> + if (ret < 2) {
> netdev_err(dev->net, "Error reading PHYID register: %02x\n", ret);
> goto out;
> }

If ret is 0 or 1 here, shouldn't asix_read_phy_addr() return an error code
instead of 0 or 1?

- Eric