From: Johan Hovold <johan@kernel.org>
To: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
Cc: Juergen Stuber <starblue@users.sourceforge.net>,
Johan Hovold <johan@kernel.org>,
Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
legousb-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, linux-usb@vger.kernel.org,
kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] USB: legousbtower: fix a signedness bug in tower_probe()
Date: Fri, 11 Oct 2019 16:04:00 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20191011140400.GI13531@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20191011133525.GB22905@mwanda>
On Fri, Oct 11, 2019 at 04:35:25PM +0300, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> The problem is that sizeof() is unsigned long so negative error codes
> are type promoted to high positive values and the condition becomes
> false.
>
> Fixes: 1d427be4a39d ("USB: legousbtower: fix slab info leak at probe")
> Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
> ---
> drivers/usb/misc/legousbtower.c | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/usb/misc/legousbtower.c b/drivers/usb/misc/legousbtower.c
> index 9d4c52a7ebe0..835908fe1e65 100644
> --- a/drivers/usb/misc/legousbtower.c
> +++ b/drivers/usb/misc/legousbtower.c
> @@ -881,7 +881,7 @@ static int tower_probe (struct usb_interface *interface, const struct usb_device
> get_version_reply,
> sizeof(*get_version_reply),
> 1000);
> - if (result < sizeof(*get_version_reply)) {
> + if (result < 0 || result < sizeof(*get_version_reply)) {
> if (result >= 0)
> result = -EIO;
> dev_err(idev, "get version request failed: %d\n", result);
Bah, I should have noticed.
Thanks for fixing this!
Acked-by: Johan Hovold <johan@kernel.org>
Johan
prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-10-11 14:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-10-11 13:35 [PATCH] USB: legousbtower: fix a signedness bug in tower_probe() Dan Carpenter
2019-10-11 13:51 ` walter harms
2019-10-11 13:58 ` Dan Carpenter
2019-10-11 14:08 ` Johan Hovold
2019-10-11 14:11 ` [PATCH v2] " Dan Carpenter
2019-10-11 14:23 ` Johan Hovold
2019-10-11 14:04 ` Johan Hovold [this message]
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