[PATCH 2/4] HID: logitech-hidpp: check name retrieval return code

From: Peter Wu
Date: Thu Dec 11 2014 - 07:53:23 EST


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@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
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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