[patch 2/6] Staging: gdm72xx: silence underflow warning in netlink_send()

From: Dan Carpenter
Date: Mon Feb 22 2016 - 14:31:57 EST


The value of "group" comes from "idx" in __gdm_wimax_event_send():

if (sscanf(e->dev->name, "wm%d", &idx) == 1)

Smatch marks sscanf values as user controlled. It's supposed to be a
number in 0-30 range. We cap the upper bound but allow negatives. Fix
this by making it type u16 instead.

Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx>

diff --git a/drivers/staging/gdm72xx/netlink_k.h b/drivers/staging/gdm72xx/netlink_k.h
index 1fe7198..1914347 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/gdm72xx/netlink_k.h
+++ b/drivers/staging/gdm72xx/netlink_k.h
@@ -20,6 +20,6 @@
struct sock *netlink_init(int unit, void (*cb)(struct net_device *dev, u16 type,
void *msg, int len));
void netlink_exit(struct sock *sock);
-int netlink_send(struct sock *sock, int group, u16 type, void *msg, int len);
+int netlink_send(struct sock *sock, u16 group, u16 type, void *msg, int len);

#endif /* __GDM72XX_NETLINK_K_H__ */
diff --git a/drivers/staging/gdm72xx/netlink_k.c b/drivers/staging/gdm72xx/netlink_k.c
index 4089b17..96c9034 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/gdm72xx/netlink_k.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/gdm72xx/netlink_k.c
@@ -114,7 +114,7 @@ void netlink_exit(struct sock *sock)
netlink_kernel_release(sock);
}

-int netlink_send(struct sock *sock, int group, u16 type, void *msg, int len)
+int netlink_send(struct sock *sock, u16 group, u16 type, void *msg, int len)
{
static u32 seq;
struct sk_buff *skb = NULL;