Re: [PATCH] net: wireless: cisco: Fix possible uninit bug

[Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>]

On Tue, 2023-07-04 at 16:50 -0700, Yu Hao wrote:
> The struct cap_rid should be initialized by function readCapabilityRid.
> However, there is not return value check. Iit is possible that
> the function readCapabilityRid returns error code and cap_rid.softCap
> is not initialized. But there is a read later for this field.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Yu Hao <yhao016@ucr.edu>
> ---
>  drivers/net/wireless/cisco/airo.c | 5 ++++-
>  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/cisco/airo.c
> b/drivers/net/wireless/cisco/airo.c
> index 7c4cc5f5e1eb..b3736d76a5d5 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/wireless/cisco/airo.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/cisco/airo.c
> @@ -6950,8 +6950,11 @@ static int airo_get_range(struct net_device *dev,
>     CapabilityRid cap_rid;      /* Card capability info */
>     int     i;
>     int     k;
> +   int     status;
> 
> -   readCapabilityRid(local, &cap_rid, 1);
> +   status = readCapabilityRid(local, &cap_rid, 1);
> +   if (status != SUCCESS)
> +       return ERROR;

This value is returned directly to the network stack, you must use a
standard error code instead (e.g. -EINVAL).

Also, please add a suitable 'Fixes' tag, thanks!

Paolo