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From: Ahmad Fatoum <a.fatoum@pengutronix.de>
To: barebox@lists.infradead.org
Cc: Lars Schmidt <l.schmidt@pengutronix.de>,
	Ahmad Fatoum <a.fatoum@pengutronix.de>
Subject: [PATCH] fixup! bootchooser: implement locking of attempts counter
Date: Mon, 23 Jun 2025 15:13:06 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20250623131306.2179862-1-a.fatoum@pengutronix.de> (raw)

We have two code paths with goto err that don't set ret beforehand with
the expectation that the default -EINVAL will be used.

ret is now being reused though and thus the -EINVAL is clobbered. In the
worst case, an error ends up with ERR_PTR(ret) == NULL crashing
bootchooser -i when a state prefix is set, but no targets are defined.

Fix this by always initializing ret explicitly.

Cc: Lars Schmidt <l.schmidt@pengutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Ahmad Fatoum <a.fatoum@pengutronix.de>
---
 common/bootchooser.c | 4 +++-
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/common/bootchooser.c b/common/bootchooser.c
index 623cb8ce7714..a79eee8ca2c4 100644
--- a/common/bootchooser.c
+++ b/common/bootchooser.c
@@ -352,7 +352,7 @@ struct bootchooser *bootchooser_get(void)
 	struct bootchooser *bc;
 	struct bootchooser_target *target;
 	char *targets, *str, *freep = NULL, *delim;
-	int ret = -EINVAL, id = 1;
+	int ret, id = 1;
 	uint32_t last_chosen;
 	static int attempts_resetted;
 	uint32_t locked;
@@ -430,11 +430,13 @@ struct bootchooser *bootchooser_get(void)
 
 	if (id == 1) {
 		pr_err("Target list $global.bootchooser.targets is empty\n");
+		ret = -EINVAL;
 		goto err;
 	}
 
 	if (list_empty(&bc->targets)) {
 		pr_err("No targets could be initialized\n");
+		ret = -EINVAL;
 		goto err;
 	}
 
-- 
2.39.5




             reply	other threads:[~2025-06-23 17:38 UTC|newest]

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2025-06-23 13:13 Ahmad Fatoum [this message]
2025-06-24  7:19 ` Sascha Hauer

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