Re: [PATCH 3/6] USB: serial: ftdi_sio: only allow valid latency timer values

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On Tue, Feb 28, 2017 at 12:51:25PM +0000, Ian Abbott wrote:
> Valid latency timer values are between 1 ms and 255 ms in 1 ms steps.
> The store function for the "latency_timer" device attribute currently
> allows any value, although only the lower 8-bits will be written to the
> latency timer.  Return an error for out-of-range values.

And in fact, 0 is currently used (and accepted by the device) if a
negative value is provided.

> Signed-off-by: Ian Abbott <abbotti@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  drivers/usb/serial/ftdi_sio.c | 3 +++
>  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/usb/serial/ftdi_sio.c b/drivers/usb/serial/ftdi_sio.c
> index a1b90f4184a7..2da99875cecb 100644
> --- a/drivers/usb/serial/ftdi_sio.c
> +++ b/drivers/usb/serial/ftdi_sio.c
> @@ -1716,6 +1716,9 @@ static ssize_t latency_timer_store(struct device *dev,
>  	int v = simple_strtoul(valbuf, NULL, 10);
>  	int rv;
>  
> +	if (v < 1 || v > 255)
> +		return -EINVAL;
> +

We probably still need to accept 0 here, which seems to give a timer of
1 ms, as someone may be relying on that behaviour already.

>  	priv->latency = v;
>  	rv = write_latency_timer(port);
>  	if (rv < 0)

Johan
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