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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

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