net: ch9200: fix uninitialised access during mii_nway_restart

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

net: ch9200: fix uninitialised access during mii_nway_restart

In mii_nway_restart() the code attempts to call

mii->mdio_read which is ch9200_mdio_read(). ch9200_mdio_read()

utilises a local buffer called "buff", which is initialised

with control_read(). However "buff" is conditionally

initialised inside control_read():

if (err == size) {

memcpy(data, buf, size);

}

If the condition of "err == size" is not met, then

"buff" remains uninitialised. Once this happens the

uninitialised "buff" is accessed and returned during

ch9200_mdio_read():

return (buff[0] | buff[1] << 8);

The problem stems from the fact that ch9200_mdio_read()

ignores the return value of control_read(), leading to

uinit-access of "buff".

To fix this we should check the return value of

control_read() and return early on error.