Re: [PATCH] net: ax88179: add proper error handling of usb read errors

[Pavel Skripkin]

Hi David,

Almost perfect, please see one comment inline

On 4/16/22 10:48, David Kahurani wrote:
> Reads that are lesser than the requested size lead to uninit-value bugs.
> In this particular case a variable which was supposed to be initialized
> after a read is left uninitialized after a partial read.
>
> Qualify such reads as errors and handle them correctly and while at it
> convert the reader functions to return zero on success for easier error
> handling.
>
> Fixes: e2ca90c276e1 ("ax88179_178a: ASIX AX88179_178A USB 3.0/2.0 to
> gigabit ethernet adapter driver")
> Signed-off-by: David Kahurani <k.kahurani@xxxxxxxxx>
> Reported-and-tested-by: syzbot+d3dbdf31fbe9d8f5f311@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> ---

[code snip]

>   
> @@ -416,7 +441,7 @@ ax88179_phy_write_mmd_indirect(struct usbnet *dev, u16 prtad, u16 devad,
>   	ret = ax88179_write_cmd(dev, AX_ACCESS_PHY, AX88179_PHY_ID,
>   				MII_MMD_DATA, 2, &data);
>   
> -	if (ret < 0)
> +	if (ret)
>   		return ret;
>   

I think, you didn't mean to do so. ax88179_write_cmd() returns number of 
bytes written, so you are changing the logic here. And write call is not 
related to uninit value bugs





With regards,
Pavel Skripkin

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