On Tue, Sep 09 2014, Dan Carpenter <dan.carpen...@oracle.com> wrote:
> We need "idx" to be signed for the error handling to work.
>
> Fixes: 6d5c1c77bbf9 ('usb: gadget: f_fs: fix the redundant ep files problem')
> Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpen...@oracle.com>
Acked-by: Michal Nazarewicz <min...@mina86.com>
> ---
> Btw, there is a sparse warning:
>
> drivers/usb/gadget/function/f_fs.c:401:44: warning: Variable length array is
> used.
>
> The risk here is that the array would be too large. I don't know the
> code well enough to say if it can be triggered, but from an outsider
> perspective it looks scary (security implications). There should be a
> comment explaining why it can't be used to overflow the 8k stack.
n in that function can be at most 4 and usb_functionfs_event is 20 bytes
long so this takes at most 80 bytes. Having said that, I can prepare
a patch that converts the array to one with compile-time size if
desired.
>
> diff --git a/drivers/usb/gadget/function/f_fs.c
> b/drivers/usb/gadget/function/f_fs.c
> index 0dc3552..7ad7137 100644
> --- a/drivers/usb/gadget/function/f_fs.c
> +++ b/drivers/usb/gadget/function/f_fs.c
> @@ -2393,7 +2393,8 @@ static int __ffs_func_bind_do_descs(enum
> ffs_entity_type type, u8 *valuep,
> struct usb_endpoint_descriptor *ds = (void *)desc;
> struct ffs_function *func = priv;
> struct ffs_ep *ffs_ep;
> - unsigned ep_desc_id, idx;
> + unsigned ep_desc_id;
> + int idx;
> static const char *speed_names[] = { "full", "high", "super" };
>
> if (type != FFS_DESCRIPTOR)
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