[Linux-stm32] [PATCH] phy: stm32-usphyc: Fix off by one in probe()

Amelie Delaunay amelie.delaunay at foss.st.com
Tue Dec 9 00:52:41 PST 2025


On 12/9/25 07:53, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> The "index" variable is used as an index into the usbphyc->phys[] array
> which has usbphyc->nphys elements.  So if it is equal to usbphyc->nphys
> then it is one element out of bounds.  The "index" comes from the
> device tree so it's data that we trust and it's unlikely to be wrong,
> however it's obviously still worth fixing the bug.  Change the > to >=.
> 
> Fixes: 94c358da3a05 ("phy: stm32: add support for STM32 USB PHY Controller (USBPHYC)")
> Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter at linaro.org>

Hi Dan, thanks for your patch.

Reviewed-by: Amelie Delaunay <amelie.delaunay at foss.st.com>

> ---
>   drivers/phy/st/phy-stm32-usbphyc.c | 2 +-
>   1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/phy/st/phy-stm32-usbphyc.c b/drivers/phy/st/phy-stm32-usbphyc.c
> index 27fe92f73f33..b44afbff8616 100644
> --- a/drivers/phy/st/phy-stm32-usbphyc.c
> +++ b/drivers/phy/st/phy-stm32-usbphyc.c
> @@ -712,7 +712,7 @@ static int stm32_usbphyc_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
>   		}
>   
>   		ret = of_property_read_u32(child, "reg", &index);
> -		if (ret || index > usbphyc->nphys) {
> +		if (ret || index >= usbphyc->nphys) {
>   			dev_err(&phy->dev, "invalid reg property: %d\n", ret);
>   			if (!ret)
>   				ret = -EINVAL;




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