[Intel-wired-lan] [PATCH net 2/3] e1000: fix endianness conversion of uninitialized words

Agalakov Daniil
2026-03-18T15:16:25Z

[Why]
In e1000_set_eeprom(), the eeprom_buff is allocated to hold a range of
words. However, only the boundary words (the first and the last) are
populated from the EEPROM if the write request is not word-aligned.
The words in the middle of the buffer remain uninitialized because they
are intended to be completely overwritten by the new data via memcpy().

The previous implementation had a loop that performed le16_to_cpus()
on the entire buffer. This resulted in endianness conversion being
performed on uninitialized memory for all interior words.

Fix this by converting the endianness only for the boundary words
immediately after they are successfully read from the EEPROM.

Found by Linux Verification Center (linuxtesting.org) with SVACE.

Fixes: 1da177e4c3f4 ("Linux-2.6.12-rc2")
Co-developed-by: Iskhakov Daniil <dish@amicon.ru>
Signed-off-by: Iskhakov Daniil <dish@amicon.ru>
Signed-off-by: Agalakov Daniil <ade@amicon.ru>
---
drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e1000/e1000_ethtool.c | 10 ++++++----
1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e1000/e1000_ethtool.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e1000/e1000_ethtool.c
index 4dcbeabb3ad2..c15ad95c63c1 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e1000/e1000_ethtool.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e1000/e1000_ethtool.c
@@ -499,6 +499,9 @@ static int e1000_set_eeprom(struct net_device *netdev,
if (ret_val)
goto out;

+ /* Device's eeprom is always little-endian, word addressable */
+ le16_to_cpus(&eeprom_buff[0]);
+
ptr++;
}
if ((eeprom->offset + eeprom->len) & 1) {
@@ -509,11 +512,10 @@ static int e1000_set_eeprom(struct net_device *netdev,
&eeprom_buff[last_word - first_word]);
if (ret_val)
goto out;
- }

- /* Device's eeprom is always little-endian, word addressable */
- for (i = 0; i < last_word - first_word + 1; i++)
- le16_to_cpus(&eeprom_buff[i]);
+ /* Device's eeprom is always little-endian, word addressable */
+ le16_to_cpus(&eeprom_buff[last_word - first_word]);
+ }

memcpy(ptr, bytes, eeprom->len);

--
2.51.0