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* signedness bug in lbs_auth_to_authtype()
@ 2012-03-28  7:24 Dan Carpenter
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From: Dan Carpenter @ 2012-03-28  7:24 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Kiran Divekar; +Cc: linux-wireless

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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