cxgb4: Add support for ndo_get_vf_config
Hello Hariprasad Shenai,
The patch 661dbeb9d6e6: "cxgb4: Add support for ndo_get_vf_config" from Sep 2, 2016, leads to the following static checker warning:
drivers/net/ethernet/chelsio/cxgb4/cxgb4_main.c:2723 cxgb4_mgmt_set_vf_mac() warn: uncapped user index 'adap->vfinfo[vf]'
drivers/net/ethernet/chelsio/cxgb4/cxgb4_main.c
2705 static int cxgb4_mgmt_set_vf_mac(struct net_device *dev, int vf, u8 *mac)
^^^^^^
"vf" comes from skb->data so it's marked as untrusted in do_setvfinfo().
2706 {
2707 struct port_info *pi = netdev_priv(dev);
2708 struct adapter *adap = pi->adapter;
2709 int ret;
2710
2711 /* verify MAC addr is valid */
2712 if (!is_valid_ether_addr(mac)) {
2713 dev_err(pi->adapter->pdev_dev,
2714 "Invalid Ethernet address %pM for VF %d\n",
2715 mac, vf);
2716 return -EINVAL;
2717 }
2718
2719 dev_info(pi->adapter->pdev_dev,
2720 "Setting MAC %pM on VF %d\n", mac, vf);
2721 ret = t4_set_vf_mac_acl(adap, vf + 1, 1, mac);
^^^^^^It looks to me like an invalid "vf" can still return success...
2722 if (!ret)
--> 2723 ether_addr_copy(adap->vfinfo[vf].vf_mac_addr, mac);
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^->vfinfo is allocated in cxgb4_iov_configure().
2724 return ret;
2725 }There are a bunch of these bugs in different drivers. Some drivers do check "vf" and some don't. I'm not posisitive on the rules here.
regards,
dan carpenter