Re: [PATCH v2] media: si2165: fix a missing check of return value

From: Matthias Schwarzott
Date: Fri Dec 21 2018 - 03:25:06 EST


Am 21.12.18 um 05:54 schrieb Kangjie Lu:
> si2165_readreg8() may fail. Looking into si2165_readreg8(), we will find
> that "val_tmp" will be an uninitialized value when regmap_read() fails.
> "val_tmp" is then assigned to "val". So if si2165_readreg8() fails,
> "val" will be a random value. Further use will lead to undefined
> behaviors. The fix checks if si2165_readreg8() fails, and if so, returns
> its error code upstream.
>
> Signed-off-by: Kangjie Lu <kjlu@xxxxxxx>

Reviewed-by: Matthias Schwarzott <zzam@xxxxxxxxxx>

> ---
> drivers/media/dvb-frontends/si2165.c | 8 +++++---
> 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/media/dvb-frontends/si2165.c b/drivers/media/dvb-frontends/si2165.c
> index feacd8da421d..d55d8f169dca 100644
> --- a/drivers/media/dvb-frontends/si2165.c
> +++ b/drivers/media/dvb-frontends/si2165.c
> @@ -275,18 +275,20 @@ static u32 si2165_get_fe_clk(struct si2165_state *state)
>
> static int si2165_wait_init_done(struct si2165_state *state)
> {
> - int ret = -EINVAL;
> + int ret;
> u8 val = 0;
> int i;
>
> for (i = 0; i < 3; ++i) {
> - si2165_readreg8(state, REG_INIT_DONE, &val);
> + ret = si2165_readreg8(state, REG_INIT_DONE, &val);
> + if (ret < 0)
> + return ret;
> if (val == 0x01)
> return 0;
> usleep_range(1000, 50000);
> }
> dev_err(&state->client->dev, "init_done was not set\n");
> - return ret;
> + return -EINVAL;
> }
>
> static int si2165_upload_firmware_block(struct si2165_state *state,
>