Hi,
On Tue, Mar 7, 2023 at 3:44 AM Simon Horman <simon.horman@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Mon, Mar 06, 2023 at 11:18:24AM -0800, Harshit Mogalapalli wrote:
> > mac_len is of type unsigned, which can never be less than zero.
> >
> > mac_len = ieee802154_hdr_peek_addrs(skb, &header);
> > if (mac_len < 0)
> > return mac_len;
> >
> > Change this to type int as ieee802154_hdr_peek_addrs() can return negative
> > integers, this is found by static analysis with smatch.
> >
> > Fixes: ded845a781a5 ("ieee802154: Add CA8210 IEEE 802.15.4 device driver")
> > Signed-off-by: Harshit Mogalapalli <harshit.m.mogalapalli@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> I discussed this briefly with Harshit offline.
>
> The commit referenced above tag does add the call to
> ieee802154_hdr_peek_addrs(), an there is a sign miss match between
> the return value and the variable.
>
> The code to check the mac_len was added more recently, by the following
> commit. However the fixes tag is probably fine as-is, because it's fixing
> error handling of a call made in that commit.
>
> 6c993779ea1d ("ca8210: fix mac_len negative array access")
>
> Reviewed-by: Simon Horman <simon.horman@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
sure, thanks for catching this.
- Alex
