Re: [PATCH v3 1/2] HID: u2fzero: clarify error check and length calculations

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On Tue, 19 Oct 2021, Andrej Shadura wrote:

> The previous commit fixed handling of incomplete packets but broke error
> handling: offsetof returns an unsigned value (size_t), but when compared
> against the signed return value, the return value is interpreted as if
> it were unsigned, so negative return values are never less than the
> offset.
> 
> To make the code easier to read, calculate the minimal packet length
> once and separately, and assign it to a signed int variable to eliminate
> unsigned math and the need for type casts. It then becomes immediately
> obvious how the actual data length is calculated and why the return
> value cannot be less than the minimal length.
> 
> Fixes: 22d65765f211 ("HID: u2fzero: ignore incomplete packets without data")
> Fixes: 42337b9d4d95 ("HID: add driver for U2F Zero built-in LED and RNG")
> Signed-off-by: Andrej Shadura <andrew.shadura@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Both now applied, thanks.

-- 
Jiri Kosina
SUSE Labs




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