staging: rtl8188eu: fix usb_submit_urb error handling
authorMartin Kaiser <martin@kaiser.cx>
Sun, 20 Jun 2021 17:40:57 +0000 (19:40 +0200)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Thu, 24 Jun 2021 12:41:50 +0000 (14:41 +0200)
commitdeefd9211ded45a8d2088763b095fd7f2f151d34
tree4d480a0241d326ef258a775a602fb4769d229c84
parent872cfb096d3a009709b56f23f5280a359bbe58e2
staging: rtl8188eu: fix usb_submit_urb error handling

usb_read_port prepares a bulk in urb and calls usb_submit_urb to pass the
usb to the usb core. It seems wrong that usb_read_port returns success to
its caller if usb_submit_urb failed with -EPERM.

According to drivers/usb/core/urb.c, usb_submit_urb returns -EPERM when
an urb is resubmitted after being cancelled by usb_kill_urb etc.

The only caller who checks the return value of usb_read_port is
rtw_hal_inirp_init. This function submits the bulk in urbs for the first
time after the netdevice is opened. We'll not receive -EPERM from
usb_submit_urb in this case. The urbs are resubmitted by
read_port_complete, which does not check for errors from usb_read_port.

This driver may kill pending bulk in urbs when the netdevice is closed when
the driver is unloaded or the system goes to sleep. I don't think that this
will interrupt an ongoing netdev open.

Suggested-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Kaiser <martin@kaiser.cx>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210620174057.10201-1-martin@kaiser.cx
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
drivers/staging/rtl8188eu/os_dep/usb_ops_linux.c