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Date:	Sun, 19 Jun 2016 12:03:53 +0200
From:	Nicolas Iooss <nicolas.iooss_linux@....org>
To:	Lars-Peter Clausen <lars@...afoo.de>,
	Michael Hennerich <Michael.Hennerich@...log.com>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	Ksenija Stanojevic <ksenija.stanojevic@...il.com>
Cc:	Jonathan Cameron <jic23@...nel.org>,
	Hartmut Knaack <knaack.h@....de>,
	Peter Meerwald-Stadler <pmeerw@...erw.net>,
	linux-iio@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] staging: iio: initialize data pointer before using it

On 06/19/2016 11:41 AM, Lars-Peter Clausen wrote:
> On 06/18/2016 11:12 PM, Nicolas Iooss wrote:
>> ad7606_spi_read_block() reads SPI big-endian data into a buffer which is
>> then converted to CPU byte-order with a second variable.  This variable,
>> data, has been left unitialized after commit 87787e5ef727 ("Staging:
>> iio: Fix sparse endian warning").
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Thanks for the patch. A similar patch was already merged last week.

Nice :) Actually I sent this patch because the bug is still present in
linux-next tree [1] and I failed to see a reference to a dedicated
development tree in MAINTAINERS.

Thanks for your quick reply!

-- Nicolas

[1]
https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/next/linux-next.git/tree/drivers/staging/iio/adc/ad7606_spi.c

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