Re: [PATCH] net: usb: dm9601: fix uninitialized variable use in dm9601_mdio_read

From: Peter Korsgaard
Date: Mon Oct 09 2023 - 16:48:44 EST


>>>>> "Javier" == Javier Carrasco <javier.carrasco.cruz@xxxxxxxxx> writes:

> syzbot has found an uninit-value bug triggered by the dm9601 driver [1].
> This error happens because the variable res is not updated if the call
> to dm_read_shared_word returns an error or if no data is read (see
> __usbnet_read_cmd()). In this particular case -EPROTO was returned and
> res stayed uninitialized.

> This can be avoided by checking the return value of dm_read_shared_word
> and returning an error if the read operation failed or no data was read.

> [1] https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=1f53a30781af65d2c955

> Signed-off-by: Javier Carrasco <javier.carrasco.cruz@xxxxxxxxx>
> Reported-and-tested-by: syzbot+1f53a30781af65d2c955@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> ---
> drivers/net/usb/dm9601.c | 9 ++++++++-
> 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

> diff --git a/drivers/net/usb/dm9601.c b/drivers/net/usb/dm9601.c
> index 48d7d278631e..e223daa93229 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/usb/dm9601.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/usb/dm9601.c
> @@ -222,13 +222,20 @@ static int dm9601_mdio_read(struct net_device *netdev, int phy_id, int loc)
> struct usbnet *dev = netdev_priv(netdev);

> __le16 res;
> + int err;

> if (phy_id) {
> netdev_dbg(dev->net, "Only internal phy supported\n");
> return 0;
> }

> - dm_read_shared_word(dev, 1, loc, &res);
> + err = dm_read_shared_word(dev, 1, loc, &res);
> + if (err <= 0) {
> + if (err == 0)
> + err = -ENODATA;

Looking at dm_read(), it doesn't look like we can end up here with err
== 0, but OK.

Acked-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

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Bye, Peter Korsgaard