Re: [patch v3] ALSA: rawmidi: fix the get next midi device ioctl

[walter harms <wharms@bfs.de>]

Dan Carpenter schrieb:
> If we pass in a device which is higher than SNDRV_RAWMIDI_DEVICES then
> the "next device" should be -1.  This function just returns device + 1.
> 
> But the main thing is that "device + 1" can lead to a (harmless) integer
> overflow and that annoys static analysis tools.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <error27@gmail.com>
> ---
> V2:  In the first version I made negative values return -EINVAL
> V3:  We shouldn't return -EINVAL for numbers which are too large but
>      just set the next device to -1.
> 
> diff --git a/sound/core/rawmidi.c b/sound/core/rawmidi.c
> index eb68326..df67605 100644
> --- a/sound/core/rawmidi.c
> +++ b/sound/core/rawmidi.c
> @@ -829,6 +829,8 @@ static int snd_rawmidi_control_ioctl(struct snd_card *card,
>  		
>  		if (get_user(device, (int __user *)argp))
>  			return -EFAULT;
> +		if (device > SNDRV_RAWMIDI_DEVICES) /* next device is -1 */
> +			device = SNDRV_RAWMIDI_DEVICES;
>  		mutex_lock(&register_mutex);
>  		device = device < 0 ? 0 : device + 1;
>  		while (device < SNDRV_RAWMIDI_DEVICES) {


i am not the expert here but i sound a good idea to put all device changes into one place. like:

if (device > SNDRV_RAWMIDI_DEVICES )
	device = SNDRV_RAWMIDI_DEVICES;
else if (device < 0 )
	device = 0;
else
        device++;

just my 2 cents,
re,
 wh