Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 11 Dec 2014 10:23:30 -0500 | From | Benjamin Tissoires <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 2/4] HID: logitech-hidpp: check name retrieval return code |
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On Dec 11 2014 or thereabouts, Peter Wu wrote: > hidpp_devicenametype_get_device_name() may return a negative value on > protocol errors (for example, when the device is powered off). > Explicitly check this condition to avoid a long-running loop. > > (0 cannot be returned as __name_length - index > 0, but check for it > anyway as it would otherwise result in an infinite loop.) > > Signed-off-by: Peter Wu <peter@lekensteyn.nl> > ---
Reviewed-by: Benjamin Tissoires <benjamin.tissoires@redhat.com>
Cheers, Benjamin
> drivers/hid/hid-logitech-hidpp.c | 10 ++++++++-- > 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/drivers/hid/hid-logitech-hidpp.c b/drivers/hid/hid-logitech-hidpp.c > index 5066df8..4d72c20 100644 > --- a/drivers/hid/hid-logitech-hidpp.c > +++ b/drivers/hid/hid-logitech-hidpp.c > @@ -484,10 +484,16 @@ static char *hidpp_get_device_name(struct hidpp_device *hidpp) > if (!name) > return NULL; > > - while (index < __name_length) > - index += hidpp_devicenametype_get_device_name(hidpp, > + while (index < __name_length) { > + ret = hidpp_devicenametype_get_device_name(hidpp, > feature_index, index, name + index, > __name_length - index); > + if (ret <= 0) { > + kfree(name); > + return NULL; > + } > + index += ret; > + } > > return name; > } > -- > 2.1.3 >
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