Re: [PATCH] media: uvcvideo: Fix buffer overflow in uvc_mapping_get_menu_value()

[Dan Carpenter]

On Fri, Sep 18, 2026 at 03:46:11PM +0200, Ricardo Ribalda wrote:
> Hi Dan
> 
> On Fri, 18 Sept 2026 at 15:18, Dan Carpenter <error27@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > On Fri, Sep 18, 2026 at 02:59:29PM +0200, Ricardo Ribalda wrote:
> > > Hi Dan
> > >
> > > I believe that for all the uses of uvc_mapping_get_menu_value we are
> > > already doing bound checks:
> > >
> > > index >= BITS_PER_TYPE(mapping->menu_mask) in uvc_query_v4l2_menu()
> > > value> fls(mapping->menu_mask) -1 in uvc_ctrl_clamp()
> > > BIT(i) <= mapping->menu_mask in uvc_menu_to_v4l2_menu()
> > >
> >
> > The problematic caller is uvc_set_le_value().
> >
> >         value = *(s32 *)v4l2_in;
> >
> > Smatch thinks that is called from uvc_mapping_set_xctrl_compound().
> 
> uvc_mapping_set_xctrl_compound() are only called if v4l2_type >=
> V4L2_CTRL_TYPE_RECT and then v4l2_type != V4L2_CTRL_TYPE_MENU. So I
> think we are safe.
> 

Yeah...  I have reprimanded ChatGPT and it says it has updated the
warning review skill.

This is difficult to silence.  But I'm going to ask AI to create
an tool to automatically rebuild a second temporary database which
only checks the problematic call tree and points any impossible
constraints.  That would have flagged this warning as a false
positive.

regards,
dan carpenter