Re: [PATCH] net: wireless: cisco: Fix possible uninit bug

[Yu Hao]

Sure.

I found that the related code is from Linux-2.6.12-rc2.
In this situation, the 'Fixes' tag should be 'Fixes: 1da177e4c3f4
("Linux-2.6.12-rc2")'?

Yu Hao

On Thu, Jul 6, 2023 at 12:54 AM Paolo Abeni <pabeni@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Tue, 2023-07-04 at 16:50 -0700, Yu Hao wrote:
> > The struct cap_rid should be initialized by function readCapabilityRid.
> > However, there is not return value check. Iit is possible that
> > the function readCapabilityRid returns error code and cap_rid.softCap
> > is not initialized. But there is a read later for this field.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Yu Hao <yhao016@xxxxxxx>
> > ---
> >  drivers/net/wireless/cisco/airo.c | 5 ++++-
> >  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/cisco/airo.c
> > b/drivers/net/wireless/cisco/airo.c
> > index 7c4cc5f5e1eb..b3736d76a5d5 100644
> > --- a/drivers/net/wireless/cisco/airo.c
> > +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/cisco/airo.c
> > @@ -6950,8 +6950,11 @@ static int airo_get_range(struct net_device *dev,
> >     CapabilityRid cap_rid;      /* Card capability info */
> >     int     i;
> >     int     k;
> > +   int     status;
> >
> > -   readCapabilityRid(local, &cap_rid, 1);
> > +   status = readCapabilityRid(local, &cap_rid, 1);
> > +   if (status != SUCCESS)
> > +       return ERROR;
>
> This value is returned directly to the network stack, you must use a
> standard error code instead (e.g. -EINVAL).
>
> Also, please add a suitable 'Fixes' tag, thanks!
>
> Paolo
>