Thread (118 messages) 118 messages, 10 authors, 2021-08-30

Re: [PATCH RFC 0/3] staging: r8188eu: avoid uninit value bugs

From: Pavel Skripkin <hidden>
Date: 2021-08-22 12:50:41
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On 8/22/21 3:39 PM, Greg KH wrote:
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Yes, but _rtw_read*() == 0 indicates 2 states:

	1. Error on transfer side
	2. Actual register value is 0
That's not a good design, it should be fixed.  Note there is the new
usb_control_msg_recv() function which should probably be used instead
here, to prevent this problem from happening.
Thank you, Greg, for confirmation. That's was the point why I started to 
write this series :)

I think, usb_control_msg_recv() won't help us with this problem, since 
all rtw_read*() functions return an unsigned value now. In future, when 
driver code will be fixed (ex: a lot of void function, which can fail 
and leave passed pointer uninitialized) we can move to new usb API and 
then move driver out of staging :)


With regards,
Pavel Skripkin
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