Re: [PATCH v3 1/3] staging: rtl8712: fix uninit-value in usb_read8() and friends

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Hi Wang,

On 5/6/22 14:59, Wang Cheng wrote:
Reported-and-tested-by: syzbot+6f5ecd144854c0d8580b@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Wang Cheng <wanngchenng@xxxxxxxxx>
---
  drivers/staging/rtl8712/usb_ops.c | 27 ++++++++++++++++++---------
  1 file changed, 18 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/staging/rtl8712/usb_ops.c b/drivers/staging/rtl8712/usb_ops.c
index e64845e6adf3..af9966d03979 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/rtl8712/usb_ops.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/rtl8712/usb_ops.c
@@ -29,7 +29,8 @@ static u8 usb_read8(struct intf_hdl *intfhdl, u32 addr)
  	u16 wvalue;
  	u16 index;
  	u16 len;
-	__le32 data;
+	int status;
+	__le32 data = 0;
  	struct intf_priv *intfpriv = intfhdl->pintfpriv;
request = 0x05;
@@ -37,8 +38,10 @@ static u8 usb_read8(struct intf_hdl *intfhdl, u32 addr)
  	index = 0;
  	wvalue = (u16)(addr & 0x0000ffff);
  	len = 1;
-	r8712_usbctrl_vendorreq(intfpriv, request, wvalue, index, &data, len,
-				requesttype);
+	status = r8712_usbctrl_vendorreq(intfpriv, request, wvalue, index,
+					 &data, len, requesttype);
+	if (status < 0)
+		return 0;

Wait, but what about partial reads? I see that r8712_usbctrl_vendorreq() uses `usb_control_msg()` which can read less data than was requested.

So here you are just hiding these error by zeroing data

  	return (u8)(le32_to_cpu(data) & 0x0ff);
  }

And as i said in previous email: caller can't see an error.

Imagine caller waits for some register to become 0. Caller sees that usb_read8() returned 0. Is it an error? Is register really become 0?


Generic read API prototype looks like following:

int read_something(struct my_cool_dev *dev, void *data, size_t size);

and it returns 0 on success and -errno on failure and data returned via passed pointer. So, if API returned an error caller should not touch @data, since likely it's uninitialized




With regards,
Pavel Skripkin

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