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From: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
To: Pavel Skripkin <paskripkin@gmail.com>
Cc: Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net, phil@philpotter.co.uk,
	gregkh@linuxfoundation.org, straube.linux@gmail.com,
	fmdefrancesco@gmail.com, linux-staging@lists.linux.dev,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] staging: r8188eu: fix type mismacth
Date: Mon, 6 Sep 2021 09:56:50 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20210906065650.GD1957@kadam> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210905205216.24831-1-paskripkin@gmail.com>

On Sun, Sep 05, 2021 at 11:52:16PM +0300, Pavel Skripkin wrote:
> smatch says:
> rtw_cmd.c:1165 rtw_setassocsta_cmd() warn: struct type mismatch 'set_stakey_rsp vs set_assocsta_rsp'
> 
> Since psetassocsta_rsp has struct set_stakey_rsp * type, it looks like
> copy-paste failure. This error didn't cause any bugs, because
> sizeof(struct set_assocsta_parm) > sizeof(struct set_stakey_rsp), but
> there is no reason for allocation extra unused memory
> 
> Fixes: 15865124feed ("staging: r8188eu: introduce new core dir for RTL8188eu driver")
> Signed-off-by: Pavel Skripkin <paskripkin@gmail.com>
> ---
>  drivers/staging/r8188eu/core/rtw_cmd.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/staging/r8188eu/core/rtw_cmd.c b/drivers/staging/r8188eu/core/rtw_cmd.c
> index fee4208dacba..afe6c7fa594d 100644
> --- a/drivers/staging/r8188eu/core/rtw_cmd.c
> +++ b/drivers/staging/r8188eu/core/rtw_cmd.c
> @@ -1162,7 +1162,7 @@ u8 rtw_setassocsta_cmd(struct adapter  *padapter, u8 *mac_addr)
>  		goto exit;
>  	}
>  
> -	psetassocsta_rsp = kzalloc(sizeof(struct set_assocsta_rsp), GFP_ATOMIC);
> +	psetassocsta_rsp = kzalloc(sizeof(struct set_stakey_rsp), GFP_ATOMIC);
>  	if (!psetassocsta_rsp) {
>  		kfree(ph2c);
>  		kfree(psetassocsta_para);

I'm not sure this is correct.  Might be, might be not.  But we use
sizeof(struct set_assocsta_rsp) later in the function so it likely leads
to memory corruption.

        ph2c->rsp = (u8 *)psetassocsta_rsp;
        ph2c->rspsz = sizeof(struct set_assocsta_rsp);

regards,
dan carpenter


  parent reply	other threads:[~2021-09-06  6:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-09-05 20:52 [PATCH] staging: r8188eu: fix type mismacth Pavel Skripkin
2021-09-05 21:40 ` Michael Straube
2021-09-06  6:56 ` Dan Carpenter [this message]
2021-09-06 15:59   ` Pavel Skripkin
2021-09-06  9:44 ` Greg KH

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