From: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Frank Li <Frank.li@oss.nxp.com>
Cc: Xu Yang <xu.yang_2@oss.nxp.com>,
kees@kernel.org, christophe.jaillet@wanadoo.fr,
xu.yang_2@nxp.com, hataegu0826@gmail.com, balbi@ti.com,
andrzej.p@samsung.com, linux-usb@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, imx@lists.linux.dev
Subject: Re: [PATCH] usb: gadget: f_uac1_legacy: fix inverted NULL check after kstrndup()
Date: Thu, 9 Jul 2026 07:33:03 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <2026070922-density-onto-3ce6@gregkh> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ak64635tgUj3MPEx@SMW015318>
On Wed, Jul 08, 2026 at 03:54:03PM -0500, Frank Li wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 08, 2026 at 05:05:03PM +0200, Greg KH wrote:
> > On Thu, Jun 25, 2026 at 07:31:54PM +0800, Xu Yang wrote:
> > > From: Xu Yang <xu.yang_2@nxp.com>
> > >
> > > kstrndup() returns NULL on allocation failure. The condition was
> > > checking 'if (tmp)' to detect failure, but this is inverted — it
> > > would treat a successful allocation as an error and return -ENOMEM
> > > while leaking the string, and proceed with a NULL pointer on failure.
> > >
> > > Fix by changing the condition to 'if (!tmp)'.
> > >
> > > Fixes: 0854611a19ae ("usb: gadget: f_uac1: add configfs support")
> > > Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
> > > Assisted-by: Claude:claude-sonnet-4-6
> > > Signed-off-by: Xu Yang <xu.yang_2@nxp.com>
> > > ---
> > > drivers/usb/gadget/function/f_uac1_legacy.c | 2 +-
> > > 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> > >
> > > diff --git a/drivers/usb/gadget/function/f_uac1_legacy.c b/drivers/usb/gadget/function/f_uac1_legacy.c
> > > index 5d201a2e30e7..e9f2632ce785 100644
> > > --- a/drivers/usb/gadget/function/f_uac1_legacy.c
> > > +++ b/drivers/usb/gadget/function/f_uac1_legacy.c
> > > @@ -914,7 +914,7 @@ static ssize_t f_uac1_opts_##name##_store(struct config_item *item, \
> > > goto end; \
> > > \
> > > tmp = kstrndup(page, len, GFP_KERNEL); \
> > > - if (tmp) { \
> > > + if (!tmp) { \
> > > ret = -ENOMEM; \
> > > goto end; \
> > > } \
> > > --
> > > 2.34.1
> > >
> > >
> >
> > So this has never worked? How has no one ever noticed that in the
> > decade this has been in the kernel? Does that mean that no one uses
> > this file/driver and we can just remove it?
>
> I think just no one use sys interface to change name.
So it can just be removed? Please submit a patch to do that instead.
Ideally this whole file can be removed, does anyone still use it?
thanks,
greg k-h
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-07-09 5:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-06-25 11:31 [PATCH] usb: gadget: f_uac1_legacy: fix inverted NULL check after kstrndup() Xu Yang
2026-06-25 11:40 ` sashiko-bot
2026-06-25 12:15 ` Frank Li
2026-07-08 15:05 ` Greg KH
2026-07-08 20:54 ` Frank Li
2026-07-09 5:33 ` Greg KH [this message]
2026-07-09 6:23 ` Xu Yang
2026-07-09 6:48 ` Greg KH
2026-07-10 12:58 ` Greg KH
2026-07-13 2:08 ` Xu Yang
2026-07-09 16:39 ` David Laight
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