Re: [PATCH] iio: fix infinite loop for gain_to_scaletables()

[Jonathan Cameron <jic23@kernel.org>]

On Thu, 31 Oct 2024 09:25:16 +0200
Matti Vaittinen <mazziesaccount@gmail.com> wrote:

> Thanks again Zicheng!
> 
> On 31/10/2024 03:46, Zicheng Qu wrote:
> > In iio_gts_build_avail_time_table(), it is checked that gts->num_itime is
> > non-zero, but gts->num_itime is not checked in gain_to_scaletables(). The
> > variable time_idx is initialized as gts->num_itime - 1. This implies that
> > time_idx might initially be set to -1 (0 - 1 = -1). Consequently, using
> > while (time_idx--) could lead to an infinite loop.
> > 
> > Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v6.6+
> > Fixes: 38416c28e168 ("iio: light: Add gain-time-scale helpers")
> > Signed-off-by: Zicheng Qu <quzicheng@huawei.com>
> > ---
> >   drivers/iio/industrialio-gts-helper.c | 2 +-
> >   1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/drivers/iio/industrialio-gts-helper.c b/drivers/iio/industrialio-gts-helper.c
> > index 59d7615c0f56..f3acd392f4fc 100644
> > --- a/drivers/iio/industrialio-gts-helper.c
> > +++ b/drivers/iio/industrialio-gts-helper.c
> > @@ -205,7 +205,7 @@ static int gain_to_scaletables(struct iio_gts *gts, int **gains, int **scales)
> >   	memcpy(all_gains, gains[time_idx], gain_bytes);
> >   	new_idx = gts->num_hwgain;
> >   
> > -	while (time_idx--) {
> > +	while (time_idx-- > 0) {
> >   		for (j = 0; j < gts->num_hwgain; j++) {
> >   			int candidate = gains[time_idx][j];
> >   			int chk;  
> 
> This, too, brings the question if supporting 0 times is worth.
> 
> At least this shows that it'd be nice to cover the "only times, no 
> hw-gains" and "no times, only hw-gains" cases in the Kunit tests...
> 
> Anyways - Thanks!
> 
> Reviewed-by: Matti Vaittinen <mazziesaccount@gmail.com>
Applied

> 
> Yours,
> 	-- Matti
> 
>