# \[PATCHv2\] usbnet: sanity check for maxpacket

- From: Oliver Neukum \<oneukum@suse.com\>
- Date: 2021-10-21 12:29:50 
- List: netdev
- Page: https://ratatoskr.run/netdev/2021/10/8879206
- Thread: https://ratatoskr.run/netdev/2021/10/8879206/t.md

```text
maxpacket of 0 makes no sense and oopses as we need to divide
by it. Give up.

V2: fixed typo in log and stylistic issues

Signed-off-by: Oliver Neukum <oneukum@suse.com>
Reported-by: <redacted>
---
 drivers/net/usb/usbnet.c | 4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/drivers/net/usb/usbnet.c b/drivers/net/usb/usbnet.c
index 840c1c2ab16a..80432ee0ce69 100644
--- a/drivers/net/usb/usbnet.c
+++ b/drivers/net/usb/usbnet.c
@@ -1788,6 +1788,10 @@ usbnet_probe (struct usb_interface *udev, const struct usb_device_id *prod)
 	if (!dev->rx_urb_size)
 		dev->rx_urb_size = dev->hard_mtu;
 	dev->maxpacket = usb_maxpacket (dev->udev, dev->out, 1);
+	if (dev->maxpacket == 0) {
+		/* that is a broken device */
+		goto out4;
+	}
 
 	/* let userspace know we have a random address */
 	if (ether_addr_equal(net->dev_addr, node_id))
-- 
2.26.2

```