net: usb: dm9601: fix uninitialized variable use in dm9601_mdio_read

syzbot has found an uninit-value bug triggered by the dm9601 driver [1].

This error happens because the variable res is not updated if the call
to dm_read_shared_word returns an error. In this particular case -EPROTO
was returned and res stayed uninitialized.

This can be avoided by checking the return value of dm_read_shared_word
and propagating the error if the read operation failed.

[1] https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=1f53a30781af65d2c955

Cc: [email protected]
Signed-off-by: Javier Carrasco <[email protected]>
Reported-and-tested-by: [email protected]
Acked-by: Peter Korsgaard <[email protected]>
Fixes: d0374f4 ("USB: Davicom DM9601 usbnet driver")
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231009-topic-dm9601_uninit_mdio_read-v2-1-f2fe39739b6c@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <[email protected]>

Author: javiercarrascocruz

drivers/net/usb/dm9601.c

@@ -222,13 +222,18 @@ static int dm9601_mdio_read(struct net_device *netdev, int phy_id, int loc)
 	struct usbnet *dev = netdev_priv(netdev);
 
 	__le16 res;
+	int err;
 
 	if (phy_id) {
 		netdev_dbg(dev->net, "Only internal phy supported\n");
 		return 0;
 	}
 
-	dm_read_shared_word(dev, 1, loc, &res);
+	err = dm_read_shared_word(dev, 1, loc, &res);
+	if (err < 0) {
+		netdev_err(dev->net, "MDIO read error: %d\n", err);
+		return err;
+	}
 
 	netdev_dbg(dev->net,
 		   "dm9601_mdio_read() phy_id=0x%02x, loc=0x%02x, returns=0x%04x\n",