Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] HID: u2fzero: explicitly check for errors

From
Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Date
2021-10-18 14:15:46
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Reply to
Andrej Shadura, 2021-10-18
On Mon, Oct 18, 2021 at 02:21:43PM +0200, Andrej Shadura wrote:
quoted hunk ↗ jump to hunk
The previous commit fixed handling of incomplete packets but broke error
handling: offsetof returns an unsigned value (size_t), but when compared
against the signed return value, the return value is interpreted as if
it were unsigned, so negative return values are never less than the
offset.

Fixes: 22d65765f211 ("HID: u2fzero: ignore incomplete packets without data")
Fixes: 42337b9d4d95 ("HID: add driver for U2F Zero built-in LED and RNG")
Signed-off-by: Andrej Shadura <redacted>
---
 drivers/hid/hid-u2fzero.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/drivers/hid/hid-u2fzero.c b/drivers/hid/hid-u2fzero.c
index d70cd3d7f583..5145d758bea0 100644
--- a/drivers/hid/hid-u2fzero.c
+++ b/drivers/hid/hid-u2fzero.c
@@ -200,7 +200,7 @@ static int u2fzero_rng_read(struct hwrng *rng, void *data,
 	ret = u2fzero_recv(dev, &req, &resp);
 
 	/* ignore errors or packets without data */
-	if (ret < offsetof(struct u2f_hid_msg, init.data))
+	if (ret < 0 || ret < offsetof(struct u2f_hid_msg, init.data))
Although the patch description does a good job of explaining what's 
happening, someone merely reading the code will most likely not 
understand.

One alternative is to add a comment.  Another is simply to force a 
signed integer comparison:

	if (ret < (ssize_t) offsetof(...

Alan Stern
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