Re: [PATCH] firewire: fix potential uaf in outbound_phy_packet_callback()

Hi Chengfeng,

Thank you for the patch! Perhaps something to improve:

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[also build test WARNING on v5.15 next-20211104]
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url:    https://github.com/0day-ci/linux/commits/Chengfeng-Ye/firewire-fix-potential-uaf-in-outbound_phy_packet_callback/20211104-233441
base:   https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ieee1394/linux1394.git for-next
config: x86_64-randconfig-r034-20211105 (attached as .config)
compiler: clang version 14.0.0 (https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project 847a6807332b13f43704327c2d30103ec0347c77)
reproduce (this is a W=1 build):
        wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/intel/lkp-tests/master/sbin/make.cross -O ~/bin/make.cross
        chmod +x ~/bin/make.cross
        # https://github.com/0day-ci/linux/commit/4374c2eea7055a681ca81f925ded194d11062af6
        git remote add linux-review https://github.com/0day-ci/linux
        git fetch --no-tags linux-review Chengfeng-Ye/firewire-fix-potential-uaf-in-outbound_phy_packet_callback/20211104-233441
        git checkout 4374c2eea7055a681ca81f925ded194d11062af6
        # save the attached .config to linux build tree
        COMPILER_INSTALL_PATH=$HOME/0day COMPILER=clang make.cross W=1 ARCH=x86_64 

If you fix the issue, kindly add following tag as appropriate
Reported-by: kernel test robot <redacted>

All warnings (new ones prefixed by >>):

quoted

drivers/firewire/core-cdev.c:1499:17: warning: ISO C90 forbids mixing declarations and code [-Wdeclaration-after-statement]

           struct client *e_client = e->client;
                          ^
   1 warning generated.


vim +1499 drivers/firewire/core-cdev.c

  1477	
  1478	static void outbound_phy_packet_callback(struct fw_packet *packet,
  1479						 struct fw_card *card, int status)
  1480	{
  1481		struct outbound_phy_packet_event *e =
  1482			container_of(packet, struct outbound_phy_packet_event, p);
  1483	
  1484		switch (status) {
  1485		/* expected: */
  1486		case ACK_COMPLETE:	e->phy_packet.rcode = RCODE_COMPLETE;	break;
  1487		/* should never happen with PHY packets: */
  1488		case ACK_PENDING:	e->phy_packet.rcode = RCODE_COMPLETE;	break;
  1489		case ACK_BUSY_X:
  1490		case ACK_BUSY_A:
  1491		case ACK_BUSY_B:	e->phy_packet.rcode = RCODE_BUSY;	break;
  1492		case ACK_DATA_ERROR:	e->phy_packet.rcode = RCODE_DATA_ERROR;	break;
  1493		case ACK_TYPE_ERROR:	e->phy_packet.rcode = RCODE_TYPE_ERROR;	break;
  1494		/* stale generation; cancelled; on certain controllers: no ack */
  1495		default:		e->phy_packet.rcode = status;		break;
  1496		}
  1497		e->phy_packet.data[0] = packet->timestamp;
  1498	

1499		struct client *e_client = e->client;

  1500		queue_event(e->client, &e->event, &e->phy_packet,
  1501			    sizeof(e->phy_packet) + e->phy_packet.length, NULL, 0);
  1502		client_put(e_client);
  1503	}
  1504	

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