Message ID | 1459027449-2667-1-git-send-email-linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk |
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State | Accepted, archived |
Delegated to: | David Miller |
Headers | show |
Rasmus Villemoes <linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk> : > We need to use post-decrement to ensure that irq_dispose_mapping is > also called on priv->rxq[0]->irq_no; moreover, if one of the above for > loops failed already at i==0 (so we reach one of these labels with > that value of i), we'll enter an essentially infinite loop of > out-of-bounds accesses. > > Signed-off-by: Rasmus Villemoes <linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk> (ok, i is signed) Reviewed-by: Francois Romieu <romieu@fr.zoreil.com> Someone messed with my review on 2014/03/25 and got it wrong. :o/ Two years after the initial submission, there is zero change regarding use of sxgbe_core_ops for extension or manageability. The extra indirection is ripe for removal during next net-next.
On Sun, Mar 27 2016, Francois Romieu <romieu@fr.zoreil.com> wrote: > Rasmus Villemoes <linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk> : >> We need to use post-decrement to ensure that irq_dispose_mapping is >> also called on priv->rxq[0]->irq_no; moreover, if one of the above for >> loops failed already at i==0 (so we reach one of these labels with >> that value of i), we'll enter an essentially infinite loop of >> out-of-bounds accesses. >> >> Signed-off-by: Rasmus Villemoes <linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk> > > (ok, i is signed) > > Reviewed-by: Francois Romieu <romieu@fr.zoreil.com> > Thanks for reviewing, but just FTR I want to point out that it doesn't matter whether i is signed or not in while (i--) However, when i is signed, there's another slightly less popular variant which is equivalent: while (--i >= 0) (a precondition for their equivalence is that i has a non-negative value before reaching the while statement). Neither are equivalent to the almost-always broken while (--i) Rasmus
From: Francois Romieu <romieu@fr.zoreil.com> Date: Sun, 27 Mar 2016 10:22:54 +0200 > Two years after the initial submission, there is zero change regarding use > of sxgbe_core_ops for extension or manageability. The extra indirection is > ripe for removal during next net-next. I completely agree, that stuff has to go.
From: Rasmus Villemoes <linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk> Date: Sat, 26 Mar 2016 22:24:09 +0100 > We need to use post-decrement to ensure that irq_dispose_mapping is > also called on priv->rxq[0]->irq_no; moreover, if one of the above for > loops failed already at i==0 (so we reach one of these labels with > that value of i), we'll enter an essentially infinite loop of > out-of-bounds accesses. > > Signed-off-by: Rasmus Villemoes <linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk> Applied, thanks. > David, can you take this directly? Of the three samsung people listed > by get_maintainer.pl, one address bounces and another informed me > privately that he's not actually a maintainer of this anymore. That's awesome, another pump and dump driver submission.
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/samsung/sxgbe/sxgbe_platform.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/samsung/sxgbe/sxgbe_platform.c index b02eed12bfc5..73427e29df2a 100644 --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/samsung/sxgbe/sxgbe_platform.c +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/samsung/sxgbe/sxgbe_platform.c @@ -155,11 +155,11 @@ static int sxgbe_platform_probe(struct platform_device *pdev) return 0; err_rx_irq_unmap: - while (--i) + while (i--) irq_dispose_mapping(priv->rxq[i]->irq_no); i = SXGBE_TX_QUEUES; err_tx_irq_unmap: - while (--i) + while (i--) irq_dispose_mapping(priv->txq[i]->irq_no); irq_dispose_mapping(priv->irq); err_drv_remove:
We need to use post-decrement to ensure that irq_dispose_mapping is also called on priv->rxq[0]->irq_no; moreover, if one of the above for loops failed already at i==0 (so we reach one of these labels with that value of i), we'll enter an essentially infinite loop of out-of-bounds accesses. Signed-off-by: Rasmus Villemoes <linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk> --- David, can you take this directly? Of the three samsung people listed by get_maintainer.pl, one address bounces and another informed me privately that he's not actually a maintainer of this anymore. drivers/net/ethernet/samsung/sxgbe/sxgbe_platform.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)