[PATCH v2] firmware: fix async, manual firmware loading

From: Yves-Alexis Perez
Date: Fri Nov 11 2016 - 10:32:33 EST


When wait_for_completion_interruptible_timeout() is called from
_request_firmware_load() with a large timeout value (here, MAX_JIFFY_OFFSET
because it's a an explicit call to the user helper), its return value (a
long) will overflow when silently casted to int, be stored as a negative
integer and then treated as an error.

This bug was introduced in commit 68ff2a00dbf5 ("firmware_loader: handle
timeout via wait_for_completion_interruptible_timeout()") when a delay work
was replaced by the call to wait_for_completion_interruptible_timeout().

Fix this by re-using the timeout variable and only set retval in specific
cases.

Signed-off-by: Yves-Alexis Perez <corsac@xxxxxxxxxx>
Fixes: 68ff2a00dbf5 "firmware_loader: handle timeout via wait_for_completion_interruptible_timeout()"
Cc: Luis R. Rodriguez <mcgrof@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Ming Lei <ming.lei@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Bjorn Andersson <bjorn.andersson@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Acked-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <mcgrof@xxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Bjorn Andersson <bjorn.andersson@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
Changelog:

v2: rewrite the changelog following comments by Luis

drivers/base/firmware_class.c | 7 ++++---
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/base/firmware_class.c b/drivers/base/firmware_class.c
index 22d1760..a95e1e5 100644
--- a/drivers/base/firmware_class.c
+++ b/drivers/base/firmware_class.c
@@ -955,13 +955,14 @@ static int _request_firmware_load(struct firmware_priv *fw_priv,
timeout = MAX_JIFFY_OFFSET;
}

- retval = wait_for_completion_interruptible_timeout(&buf->completion,
+ timeout = wait_for_completion_interruptible_timeout(&buf->completion,
timeout);
- if (retval == -ERESTARTSYS || !retval) {
+ if (timeout == -ERESTARTSYS || !timeout) {
+ retval = timeout;
mutex_lock(&fw_lock);
fw_load_abort(fw_priv);
mutex_unlock(&fw_lock);
- } else if (retval > 0) {
+ } else if (timeout > 0) {
retval = 0;
}

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2.10.2