Messages in this thread | | | From | 慕冬亮 <> | Date | Thu, 21 Jan 2021 19:25:31 +0800 | Subject | Re: [PATCH] rt2x00: reset reg earlier in rt2500usb_register_read |
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On Thu, Jan 21, 2021 at 7:21 PM Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> wrote: > > On Thu, Jan 21, 2021 at 06:59:08PM +0800, 慕冬亮 wrote: > > > > rt2x00usb_vendor_request_buff(rt2x00dev, USB_MULTI_READ, > > > > USB_VENDOR_REQUEST_IN, offset, > > > > ®, sizeof(reg)); > > > > > > Are you sure this is valid to call this function with a variable on the > > > stack like this? How did you test this change? > > > > First, I did not do any changes to this call. Second, the programming > > style to pass the pointer of stack variable as arguments is not really > > good. Third, I check this same code file, there are many code snippets > > with such programming style. :( > > I know you did not change it, what I am asking is how did you test this > change works? I think the kernel will warn you in huge ways that using > this pointer on the stack is incorrect, which implies you did not test > this change :( >
I tested this patch only with PoC. The patched kernel version did not crash when executing the PoC.
BTW, I did not take notice of the warning information as there are many many warnings in building KMSAN.
> thanks, > > greg k-h
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