[1/1] net: wireless: marvell: fix improper return value

Kalle Valo kvalo at codeaurora.org
Wed Jan 18 06:43:46 PST 2017


Pan Bian <bianpan2016 at 163.com> wrote:
> Function lbs_cmd_802_11_sleep_params() always return 0, even if the call
> to lbs_cmd_with_response() fails. In this case, the parameter @sp will
> keep uninitialized. Because the return value is 0, its caller (say
> lbs_sleepparams_read()) will not detect the error, and will copy the
> uninitialized stack memory to user sapce, resulting in stack information
> leak. To avoid the bug, this patch returns variable ret (which takes
> the return value of lbs_cmd_with_response()) instead of 0.
> 
> Bugzilla: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=188451
> 
> Signed-off-by: Pan Bian <bianpan2016 at 163.com>

The prefix should be "libertas:", I'll fix that.

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