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From: Xinsheng Zhu <xinsheng.zhu.ny@gmail.com>
To: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-usb@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	oliver@neukum.org, andrew+netdev@lunn.ch, davem@davemloft.net,
	edumazet@kernel.org, kuba@kernel.org, pabeni@redhat.com
Subject: [PATCH net] net: usb: cdc_ncm: reject short GET_NTB_PARAMETERS responses
Date: Mon,  5 Oct 2026 00:15:25 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20261005041525.49111-1-xinsheng.zhu.ny@gmail.com> (raw)

usbnet_read_cmd() returns the number of bytes read on success, which may
be smaller than the requested size. cdc_ncm_init() calls it and only
checks for negative return values, allowing initialization to continue
with an incomplete NTB parameter response.

The context is allocated and zero-initialized by kzalloc_obj() in
cdc_ncm_bind_common(). Bytes missing from a short response therefore
remain zero and may be interpreted as device-provided parameters.

Require the return value to equal sizeof(ctx->ncm_parm), consistent with
the existing exact-length check for GET_MAX_DATAGRAM_SIZE in
cdc_ncm_set_dgram_size().

Signed-off-by: Xinsheng Zhu <xinsheng.zhu.ny@gmail.com>
---
 drivers/net/usb/cdc_ncm.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/usb/cdc_ncm.c b/drivers/net/usb/cdc_ncm.c
index 35db38cb3e4a..66f40f0d9c27 100644
--- a/drivers/net/usb/cdc_ncm.c
+++ b/drivers/net/usb/cdc_ncm.c
@@ -524,7 +524,7 @@ static int cdc_ncm_init(struct usbnet *dev)
 			      |USB_RECIP_INTERFACE,
 			      0, iface_no, &ctx->ncm_parm,
 			      sizeof(ctx->ncm_parm));
-	if (err < 0) {
+	if (err != sizeof(ctx->ncm_parm)) {
 		dev_err(&dev->intf->dev, "failed GET_NTB_PARAMETERS\n");
 		return err; /* GET_NTB_PARAMETERS is required */
 	}

base-commit: 6dc989ea46b96ce170840174b4a38c4a387fb005
-- 
2.54.0 (Apple Git-157)


             reply	other threads:[~2026-10-05  4:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-10-05  4:15 Xinsheng Zhu [this message]
2026-10-05  4:19 ` [PATCH net] net: usb: cdc_ncm: reject short GET_NTB_PARAMETERS responses netdev-bot+sinfo
2026-10-05  4:36   ` Xinsheng Zhu
2026-10-07  4:16 ` netdev-bot+sashiko

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