linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] pinctrl: lpc18xx: ensure ngroups is initialized at correct place

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Date:	Mon, 7 Mar 2016 10:28:56 +0700
From:	Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@...aro.org>
To:	Colin King <colin.king@...onical.com>
Cc:	Joachim Eastwood <manabian@...il.com>,
	"linux-gpio@...r.kernel.org" <linux-gpio@...r.kernel.org>,
	"linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org" 
	<linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] pinctrl: lpc18xx: ensure ngroups is initialized at
 correct place

On Thu, Feb 25, 2016 at 12:32 AM, Colin King <colin.king@...onical.com> wrote:

> From: Colin Ian King <colin.king@...onical.com>
>
> The initialization of ngroups is occurring at the end of the
> first iteration of the outer loop, which means that the
> assignment  pins[ngroups++] = i is potentially indexing into
> a region outside of array pins because ngroups is not initialized.
> Instead, initialize ngroups in the inner loop before the first
> inner loop iteration.
>
> Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king@...onical.com>

Patch applied with Joachim's review tag.

Yours,
Linus Walleij