From: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
To: Kiran Divekar <dkiran@marvell.com>
Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Subject: signedness bug in lbs_auth_to_authtype()
Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2012 10:24:57 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120328072456.GC3200@mwanda> (raw)
There is a signedness bug in lbs_auth_to_authtype() and it messes
up the error handling.
drivers/net/wireless/libertas/cfg.c
106 static u8 lbs_auth_to_authtype(enum nl80211_auth_type auth_type)
107 {
108 int ret = -ENOTSUPP;
109
We return -ENOTSUPP but it's casted to u8 making it 244.
351 auth->header.type = cpu_to_le16(TLV_TYPE_AUTH_TYPE);
352 auth->header.len = cpu_to_le16(sizeof(*auth)-sizeof(auth->header));
353 auth->auth = cpu_to_le16(lbs_auth_to_authtype(auth_type));
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
We don't check for errors here.
354 return sizeof(*auth);
355 }
1061 /* convert auth_type */
1062 ret = lbs_auth_to_authtype(sme->auth_type);
1063 if (ret < 0)
^^^^^^^
This doesn't work because 244 is larger than zero.
1064 goto done;
I would just change the u8 to an int, except that I felt that maybe
we should be checking for errors on the first time this function is
called. I wasn't sure how to handle that error.
regards,
dan carpenter
reply other threads:[~2012-03-28 7:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: [no followups] expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=20120328072456.GC3200@mwanda \
--to=dan.carpenter@oracle.com \
--cc=dkiran@marvell.com \
--cc=linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox