Re: [PATCH RESEND] xhci: Use xhci_get_virt_ep() to validate ep_index

From: Mathias Nyman
Date: Fri May 06 2022 - 09:56:46 EST


On 29.4.2022 22.01, Mayank Rana wrote:
> On 4/29/2022 3:13 AM, Mathias Nyman wrote:
>> On 29.4.2022 12.49, Mathias Nyman wrote:
>>> On 28.4.2022 22.04, Mayank Rana wrote:
>>>> ring_doorbell_for_active_rings() API is being called from
>>>> multiple context. This specific API tries to get virt_dev
>>>> based endpoint using passed slot_id and ep_index. Some caller
>>>> API is having check against slot_id and ep_index using
>>>> xhci_get_virt_ep() API whereas xhci_handle_cmd_config_ep() API
>>>> only check ep_index against -1 value but not upper bound i.e.
>>>> EP_CTX_PER_DEV. Hence use xhci_get_virt_ep() API to get virt_dev
>>>> based endpoint which checks both slot_id and ep_index to get
>>>> valid endpoint.
>>> ep_index upper bound is known to be in range as EP_CTX_PER_DEV is 31,
>>> and ep_index = fls(u32 value)  - 1 - 1;
>>>
>>> We can change to use xhci_get_virt_ep(), but this would be more useful
>>> earlier in xhci_handle_cmd_config_ep() where we touch the ep before
>>> calling ring_doorbell_for_active_rings()
>>>
>> After a second look I would appreciate if you could clean up
>> ep_index checking in xhci_handle_cmd_config_ep()
>>
>> It currenty does some horrible typecasting.
>> ep_index is an unsigned int, so the fls() -1 operation might wrap it around.
>> Checking this was solved by typecasting a -1 to an unsigned int.
>>
>> if (ep_index != (unsigned int) -1)
>>
>> Thanks
>> Mathias
>
> Thanks Mathias for review and suggestion here.
> let me try to clean up xhci_handle_cmd_config_ep() API based ep_index usage.
>

Please don't spend too much time on this,
I'm going to remove this code as Greg suggested.

Should have replied earlier, sorry about the delay

Thanks
-Mathias