On Sat, Oct 30, 2010 at 2:32 AM, Grant Likely <grant.likely@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 06:03:47PM -0700, David Daney wrote: >> In of_mdiobus_register(), the __be32 *addr variable is dereferenced. >> This will not work on little-endian targets. Also since it is >> unsigned, checking for less than zero is redundant. >> >> Fix these two issues. >> >> Signed-off-by: David Daney <ddaney@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> >> Cc: Grant Likely <grant.likely@xxxxxxxxxxxx> >> Cc: Jeremy Kerr <jeremy.kerr@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> >> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> >> Cc: Dan Carpenter <error27@xxxxxxxxx> >> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxx> >> --- >> drivers/of/of_mdio.c | 23 ++++++++++++++--------- >> 1 files changed, 14 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-) >> >> diff --git a/drivers/of/of_mdio.c b/drivers/of/of_mdio.c >> index 1fce00e..b370306 100644 >> --- a/drivers/of/of_mdio.c >> +++ b/drivers/of/of_mdio.c >> @@ -52,27 +52,32 @@ int of_mdiobus_register(struct mii_bus *mdio, struct device_node *np) >> >> /* Loop over the child nodes and register a phy_device for each one */ >> for_each_child_of_node(np, child) { >> - const __be32 *addr; >> + const __be32 *paddr; >> + u32 addr; >> int len; >> >> /* A PHY must have a reg property in the range [0-31] */ >> - addr = of_get_property(child, "reg", &len); >> - if (!addr || len < sizeof(*addr) || *addr >= 32 || *addr < 0) { >> + paddr = of_get_property(child, "reg", &len); >> + if (!paddr || len < sizeof(*paddr)) { >> +addr_err: >> dev_err(&mdio->dev, "%s has invalid PHY address\n", >> child->full_name); >> continue; >> } >> + addr = be32_to_cpup(paddr); >> + if (addr >= 32) >> + goto addr_err; > > goto's are fine for jumping to the end of a function to unwind > allocations, but please don't use it in this manner. The original > structure will actually work just fine if you do it thusly: > > if (!paddr || len < sizeof(*paddr) || > *(addr = be32_to_cpup(paddr)) >= 32) { > dev_err(&mdio->dev, "%s has invalid PHY address\n", > child->full_name); > continue; > } > > Otherwise this patch looks good. After you've reworked and retested > I'll pick it up for 2.6.37 (or dave will). Actually, I mistyped this. I think it should be: if (!paddr || len < sizeof(*paddr) || (addr = be32_to_cpup(paddr)) >= 32) { dev_err(&mdio->dev, "%s has invalid PHY address\n", child->full_name); continue; } g.