Re: [PATCH v3 4/6] staging: r8188eu: add error handling of rtw_read16

[Pavel Skripkin <paskripkin@gmail.com>]

On 8/25/21 7:35 AM, Fabio M. De Francesco wrote:
> On Tuesday, August 24, 2021 9:27:35 AM CEST Pavel Skripkin wrote:
>> _rtw_read16 function can fail in case of usb transfer failure. But
>> previous function prototype wasn't designed to return an error to
>> caller. It can cause a lot uninit value bugs all across the driver code,
>> since rtw_read16() returns local stack variable to caller.
>> 
>> Fix it by changing the prototype of this function. Now it returns an
>> int: 0 on success, negative error value on failure and callers should pass
>> the pointer to storage location for register value.
>> 
>> Signed-off-by: Pavel Skripkin <paskripkin@gmail.com>
>> 
>> [...]
>>
>> -static u16 usb_read16(struct intf_hdl *pintfhdl, u32 addr)
>> +static int usb_read16(struct intf_hdl *pintfhdl, u32 addr, u16 *data)
>>  {
>>  	u8 requesttype;
>>  	u16 wvalue;
>>  	u16 len;
>> -	__le32 data;
>> +	int res;
>> +	__le32 tmp;
>> +
>> +	if (WARN_ON(unlikely(!data)))
>> +		return -EINVAL;
>>  
>>  	requesttype = 0x01;/* read_in */
>>  	wvalue = (u16)(addr & 0x0000ffff);
>>  	len = 2;
>> -	usbctrl_vendorreq(pintfhdl, wvalue, &data, len, requesttype);
>> +	res = usbctrl_vendorreq(pintfhdl, wvalue, &tmp, len, requesttype);
>> +	if (res < 0) {
>> +		dev_err(dvobj_to_dev(pintfhdl->pintf_dev), "Failed to read 16 bytes: %d\n", res);
>> +		return res;
>> +	} else if (res != len) {
> 
> Dear Pavel,
> 
> Please note that if and when my patch "Use usb_control_msg_recv / send () in
> usbctrl_vendorreq ()" will be merged, "if (res! = len)" will always evaluate 'true'
> and usb_read16 () will always return -EIO even if usbctrl_vendorreq () succeeds.
> 

Yep, thank you, but it depends on which series will go in first :)

There is a chance, that you will need to clean up this part, if mine 
will be merged before yours



With regards,
Pavel Skripkin