Re: [PATCH net-next] nfc: digital: Do not dump a NULL response in command completion
Przemek Kitszel <[email protected]> Fri, 10 Jul 2026 11:51:58 +0200
| Newsgroups | dev.linux.lists.oe-linux-nfc,org.kernel.vger.linux-kernel,org.kernel.vger.netdev |
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On 7/10/26 08:12, Linmao Li wrote:
> digital_wq_cmd_complete() dumps the response data whenever cmd->resp is
> not an error pointer. However, a driver can legitimately complete a
> command with no response skb at all.
>
> digital_tg_send_psl_res() is the only caller that passes timeout=0,
> meaning no response is expected once the command has been transmitted.
> On that path trf7970a completes the command with
>
> trf->rx_skb = ERR_PTR(0);
>
> which evaluates to NULL. IS_ERR(NULL) is false, so the NULL response
> passes the !IS_ERR() check and cmd->resp->data and cmd->resp->len are
> dereferenced whenever the debug print site is enabled. The driver
> guards its own dump with "trf->rx_skb && !IS_ERR(trf->rx_skb)"; the
> digital layer is missing the NULL half of that test.
>
> Use IS_ERR_OR_NULL() so that NULL responses are skipped as well. The
> callback on that path, digital_tg_send_psl_res_complete(), never
> dereferences resp and dev_kfree_skb() accepts NULL, so only the debug
> dump needs fixing.
>
> Fixes: 59ee2361c924 ("NFC Digital: Implement driver commands mechanism")
> Signed-off-by: Linmao Li <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Przemek Kitszel <[email protected]>
> ---
> A separate cleanup patch, "nfc: trf7970a: Use NULL when no response is
> expected", replaces that ERR_PTR(0) with a plain NULL. It does not
> change behaviour (ERR_PTR(0) is NULL), so this fix is needed either way;
> if that patch lands first, read "trf->rx_skb = NULL;" above.
>
> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/[email protected]
>
> net/nfc/digital_core.c | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/net/nfc/digital_core.c b/net/nfc/digital_core.c
> index 7cb1e6aaae90..18236221d898 100644
> --- a/net/nfc/digital_core.c
> +++ b/net/nfc/digital_core.c
> @@ -127,7 +127,7 @@ static void digital_wq_cmd_complete(struct work_struct *work)
>
> mutex_unlock(&ddev->cmd_lock);
>
> - if (!IS_ERR(cmd->resp))
> + if (!IS_ERR_OR_NULL(cmd->resp))
> print_hex_dump_debug("DIGITAL RX: ", DUMP_PREFIX_NONE, 16, 1,
> cmd->resp->data, cmd->resp->len, false);
>