From 952348a5f88b92e412f3e490fb83acc17e68d85c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Dan Carpenter Date: Thu, 26 Nov 2015 14:55:23 +0300 Subject: [PATCH] rt2x00: type bug in _rt2500usb_register_read() This code causes a static checker bug. drivers/net/wireless/ralink/rt2x00/rt2500usb.c:232 _rt2500usb_register_read() warn: passing casted pointer 'value' to 'rt2500usb_register_read()' 32 vs 16. If the low 16 bits were initialized to zero then this code would only be a problem on big endian systems. But in this case this is case the low 16 bits are never initialized. This is called from a function which is created using a macro: RT2X00DEBUGFS_OPS(csr, "0x%.8x\n", u32); We end up copying uninitialized data to the user which is bogus and an information leak. Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter Acked-by: Stanislaw Gruszka Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo --- drivers/net/wireless/ralink/rt2x00/rt2500usb.c | 5 ++++- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/ralink/rt2x00/rt2500usb.c b/drivers/net/wireless/ralink/rt2x00/rt2500usb.c index b50d873..d26018f 100644 --- a/drivers/net/wireless/ralink/rt2x00/rt2500usb.c +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/ralink/rt2x00/rt2500usb.c @@ -229,7 +229,10 @@ static void _rt2500usb_register_read(struct rt2x00_dev *rt2x00dev, const unsigned int offset, u32 *value) { - rt2500usb_register_read(rt2x00dev, offset, (u16 *)value); + u16 tmp; + + rt2500usb_register_read(rt2x00dev, offset, &tmp); + *value = tmp; } static void _rt2500usb_register_write(struct rt2x00_dev *rt2x00dev, -- 2.7.4