Re: [PATCH v2 next] HID: hid-goodix: Fix type promotion bug in goodix_hid_get_raw_report()

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On Thu, Aug 29, 2024 at 10:30:39PM +0300, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> The issue is GOODIX_HID_PKG_LEN_SIZE is defined as sizeof(u16) which is
> type size_t.  However, goodix_hid_check_ack_status() returns negative
> error codes or potentially a positive but invalid length which is too
> small.  So when we compare "if ((response_data_len <=
> GOODIX_HID_PKG_LEN_SIZE)" then negative error codes are type promoted to
> size_t and counted as a positive large value and treated as valid.
> 
> It would have been easy enough to add some casting to avoid the type
> promotion, however this patch takes a more thourough approach and moves
> the length check into goodix_hid_check_ack_status().  Now the function
> only return negative error codes or zero on success and the length
> pointer is never set to an invalid length.
> 
> Fixes: 75e16c8ce283 ("HID: hid-goodix: Add Goodix HID-over-SPI driver")
> Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx>

Reviewed-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@xxxxxxxxx>

Thanks Dan!

-- 
Dmitry




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