Re: [PATCH v3 0/6] staging: r8188eu: avoid uninit value bugs

[Fabio M. De Francesco]

On Tuesday, August 24, 2021 9:25:45 AM CEST Pavel Skripkin wrote:
> Hi, Greg, Larry and Phillip!
> 
> I noticed, that new staging driver was added like 3 weeks ago and I decided
> to look at the code, because drivers in staging directory are always buggy.
> 
> The first thing I noticed is *no one* was checking read operations result, but
> it can fail and driver may start writing random stack values into registers. It
> can cause driver misbehavior or device misbehavior.
> 
> To avoid this type of bugs, I've changed rtw_read* API. Now all rtw_read
> funtions return an error, when something went wrong with usb transfer.
> 
> It helps callers to break/return earlier and don't write random values to
> registers or to rely on random values.
> 
> 
> v2 -> v3:
>   1. Fixed OOPS in usb_read32(), caused by writing to u32 **
>   2. Fixed style in rtw_read32, rtw_read16 and rtw_read8 (Suggested by Dan)
>   3. Added error hanling when usb_control_msg() returns ret != len
>      NOTE: Dan suggested to add this to usbctrl_vendorreq(), but there is
>      pending series, which will get rid of usb_control_msg(), so (res != len)
>      check can be removed, when Fabio's series will go in
>   4. Removed RFC tag
> 
> v1 -> v2:
>   1. Make rtw_read*() return an error instead of initializing pointer to error
>   2. Split one huge patch to smaller ones for each rtw_read{8,16,32} function
>      changes
>   3. Add new macro for printing register values (It helps to not copy-paste error
>      handling)
>   4. Removed {read,write}_macreg (Suggested by Phillip)
>   5. Rebased on top of staging-next
>   6. Cleaned checkpatch errors and warnings
> 
> 
> Phillip has tested fixed v2 version, AFAIU

I had already acked your series when it was an RFC but I guess
the tag gets lost now that you have submitted the "real" patches.

As said, I like the purpose and the overall design. Furthermore,
I have compiled and linked the whole series (make C=2 -j8 
drivers/staging/r8188eu W=1) and I can confirm it does not
introduce any errors and/or warnings.

Anyway I couldn't test the module, so (for all six patches)...

Acked-by: Fabio M. De Francesco <fmdefrancesco@xxxxxxxxx>

Thanks,

Fabio

> Pavel Skripkin (6):
>   staging: r8188eu: remove {read,write}_macreg
>   staging: r8188eu: add helper macro for printing registers
>   staging: r8188eu: add error handling of rtw_read8
>   staging: r8188eu: add error handling of rtw_read16
>   staging: r8188eu: add error handling of rtw_read32
>   staging: r8188eu: make ReadEFuse return an int
> 
>  drivers/staging/r8188eu/core/rtw_debug.c      |  79 +++-
>  drivers/staging/r8188eu/core/rtw_efuse.c      | 125 +++--
>  drivers/staging/r8188eu/core/rtw_io.c         |  27 +-
>  drivers/staging/r8188eu/core/rtw_mp.c         |  70 ++-
>  drivers/staging/r8188eu/core/rtw_mp_ioctl.c   |  13 +-
>  drivers/staging/r8188eu/core/rtw_pwrctrl.c    |   5 +-
>  drivers/staging/r8188eu/core/rtw_sreset.c     |   9 +-
>  .../r8188eu/hal/Hal8188ERateAdaptive.c        |   8 +-
>  drivers/staging/r8188eu/hal/HalPhyRf_8188e.c  |  21 +-
>  drivers/staging/r8188eu/hal/HalPwrSeqCmd.c    |   9 +-
>  drivers/staging/r8188eu/hal/hal_com.c         |  23 +-
>  drivers/staging/r8188eu/hal/hal_intf.c        |   6 +-
>  drivers/staging/r8188eu/hal/odm_interface.c   |  12 +-
>  drivers/staging/r8188eu/hal/rtl8188e_cmd.c    |  33 +-
>  drivers/staging/r8188eu/hal/rtl8188e_dm.c     |   6 +-
>  .../staging/r8188eu/hal/rtl8188e_hal_init.c   | 285 +++++++++---
>  drivers/staging/r8188eu/hal/rtl8188e_phycfg.c |  27 +-
>  drivers/staging/r8188eu/hal/rtl8188e_sreset.c |  22 +-
>  drivers/staging/r8188eu/hal/rtl8188eu_led.c   |  18 +-
>  drivers/staging/r8188eu/hal/usb_halinit.c     | 439 +++++++++++++++---
>  drivers/staging/r8188eu/hal/usb_ops_linux.c   |  62 ++-
>  drivers/staging/r8188eu/include/hal_intf.h    |   6 +-
>  .../staging/r8188eu/include/odm_interface.h   |   6 +-
>  .../staging/r8188eu/include/rtl8188e_hal.h    |   2 +-
>  drivers/staging/r8188eu/include/rtw_debug.h   |  13 +
>  drivers/staging/r8188eu/include/rtw_efuse.h   |   4 +-
>  drivers/staging/r8188eu/include/rtw_io.h      |  18 +-
>  drivers/staging/r8188eu/include/rtw_mp.h      |   2 -
>  drivers/staging/r8188eu/os_dep/ioctl_linux.c  | 179 +++++--
>  drivers/staging/r8188eu/os_dep/usb_intf.c     |   3 +-
>  30 files changed, 1143 insertions(+), 389 deletions(-)
> 
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