Re: [PATCH] ath: ath6kl: fix error return code of ath6kl_htc_rx_bundle()

From: Jia-Ju Bai
Date: Sun Mar 07 2021 - 04:42:32 EST


Hi Leon,

I am quite sorry for my incorrect patches...
My static analysis tool reports some possible bugs about error handling code, and thus I write some patches for the bugs that seem to be true in my opinion.
Because I am not familiar with many device drivers, some of my reported bugs can be false positives...


Best wishes,
Jia-Ju Bai

On 2021/3/7 17:18, Leon Romanovsky wrote:
On Sun, Mar 07, 2021 at 01:07:57AM -0800, Jia-Ju Bai wrote:
When hif_scatter_req_get() returns NULL to scat_req, no error return
code of ath6kl_htc_rx_bundle() is assigned.
To fix this bug, status is assigned with -EINVAL in this case.

Reported-by: TOTE Robot <oslab@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Jia-Ju Bai <baijiaju1990@xxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath6kl/htc_mbox.c | 4 +++-
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath6kl/htc_mbox.c b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath6kl/htc_mbox.c
index 998947ef63b6..3f8857d19a0c 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath6kl/htc_mbox.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath6kl/htc_mbox.c
@@ -1944,8 +1944,10 @@ static int ath6kl_htc_rx_bundle(struct htc_target *target,

scat_req = hif_scatter_req_get(target->dev->ar);

- if (scat_req == NULL)
+ if (scat_req == NULL) {
+ status = -EINVAL;
I'm not sure about it.

David. Jakub,
Please be warned that patches from this guy are not so great.
I looked on 4 patches and 3 of them were wrong (2 in RDMA and 1 for mlx5)
plus this patch most likely is incorrect too.