Prashant Malani [mailto:pmal...@chromium.org]
> Sent: Saturday, August 24, 2019 4:36 PM
[...]
> get_registers() blindly copies the memory written to by the
> usb_control_msg() call even if the underlying urb failed.
> 
> This could lead to junk register values being read by the driver, since
> some indirect callers of get_registers() ignore the return values. One
> example is:
>   ocp_read_dword() ignores the return value of generic_ocp_read(), which
>   calls get_registers().
> 
> So, emulate PCI "Master Abort" behavior by setting the buffer to all
> 0xFFs when usb_control_msg() fails.
> 
> This patch is copied from the r8152 driver (v2.12.0) published by
> Realtek (www.realtek.com).
> 
> Signed-off-by: Prashant Malani <pmal...@chromium.org>
> ---

Acked-by: Hayes Wang <hayesw...@realtek.com>

Best Regards,
Hayes

Reply via email to