Re: [PATCH 37/57] staging: rtl8188eu: os_dep: ioctl_linux: Move 2 large data buffers into the heap

[Arnd Bergmann]

On Thu, Apr 15, 2021 at 7:29 AM Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Apr 15, 2021 at 08:20:16AM +0300, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> > On Wed, Apr 14, 2021 at 07:11:09PM +0100, Lee Jones wrote:
> > > ---
> > >  drivers/staging/rtl8188eu/os_dep/ioctl_linux.c | 12 +++++++++++-
> > >  1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> > >
> > > diff --git a/drivers/staging/rtl8188eu/os_dep/ioctl_linux.c b/drivers/staging/rtl8188eu/os_dep/ioctl_linux.c
> > > index c95ae4d6a3b6b..cc14f00947781 100644
> > > --- a/drivers/staging/rtl8188eu/os_dep/ioctl_linux.c
> > > +++ b/drivers/staging/rtl8188eu/os_dep/ioctl_linux.c
> > > @@ -224,7 +224,7 @@ static char *translate_scan(struct adapter *padapter,
> > >     /* parsing WPA/WPA2 IE */
> > >     {
> > >             u8 *buf;
> > > -           u8 wpa_ie[255], rsn_ie[255];
> > > +           u8 *wpa_ie, *rsn_ie;
> > >             u16 wpa_len = 0, rsn_len = 0;
> > >             u8 *p;
> > >
> > > @@ -232,6 +232,14 @@ static char *translate_scan(struct adapter *padapter,
> > >             if (!buf)
> > >                     return start;
>
> Arnd, added this return...  I don't understand why we aren't returning
> -ENOMEM here.

I don't remember my patch, but I see that the function returns a pointer
that gets dereferenced afterwards. Changing this is probably a good idea
(the caller does return an error code), but it requires a few extra changes.

If there is a larger rework, I'd suggest using a single kzalloc to get all
three arrays at once to get simpler error handling.

       Arnd