linux-kernel - Re: [patch 30/41] ACPI EC: Fix regression due to use of uninitialized variable

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Message-Id: <200902050908.45994.trenn@suse.de>
Date:	Thu, 5 Feb 2009 09:08:42 +0100
From:	Thomas Renninger <trenn@...e.de>
To:	Greg KH <gregkh@...e.de>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, stable@...nel.org,
	Justin Forbes <jmforbes@...uxtx.org>,
	Zwane Mwaikambo <zwane@....linux.org.uk>,
	"Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@....edu>,
	Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...otime.net>,
	Dave Jones <davej@...hat.com>,
	Chuck Wolber <chuckw@...ntumlinux.com>,
	Chris Wedgwood <reviews@...cw.f00f.org>,
	Michael Krufky <mkrufky@...uxtv.org>,
	Chuck Ebbert <cebbert@...hat.com>,
	Domenico Andreoli <cavokz@...il.com>, Willy Tarreau <w@....eu>,
	Rodrigo Rubira Branco <rbranco@...checkpoint.com>,
	Jake Edge <jake@....net>, Eugene Teo <eteo@...hat.com>,
	torvalds@...ux-foundation.org, akpm@...ux-foundation.org,
	alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk,
	Alexey Starikovskiy <astarikovskiy@...e.de>,
	Len Brown <len.brown@...el.com>
Subject: Re: [patch 30/41] ACPI EC: Fix regression due to use of uninitialized variable

Hi,

On Wednesday 04 February 2009 19:46:48 Greg KH wrote:
> 2.6.27-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let us
> know.
Does this one patch cleanly in 2.6.27-stable?
I had it on my list, but this seem to have been introduced after
2.6.27 and I thought I removed this one again?
Or this is a follow up of another fix that should go in?

   Thomas

> ------------------
>
> From: Alexey Starikovskiy <astarikovskiy@...e.de>
>
> commit d21cf3c16b1191f3154a51e0b20c82bf851cc553 upstream.
>
> breakage introduced by following patch
> commit 27663c5855b10af9ec67bc7dfba001426ba21222
> Author: Matthew Wilcox <willy@...ux.intel.com>
> Date:   Fri Oct 10 02:22:59 2008 -0400
>
> acpi_evaluate_integer() does not clear passed variable if
> there is an error at evaluation.
> So if we ignore error, we must supply initialized variable.
>
> http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11917
>
> Signed-off-by: Alexey Starikovskiy <astarikovskiy@...e.de>
> Tested-by: Alan Jenkins <alan-jenkins@...fmail.co.uk>
> Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@...el.com>
> Cc: Thomas Renninger <trenn@...e.de>
> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...e.de>
>
> ---
>  drivers/acpi/ec.c |    3 ++-
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> --- a/drivers/acpi/ec.c
> +++ b/drivers/acpi/ec.c
> @@ -769,7 +769,7 @@ static acpi_status
>  ec_parse_device(acpi_handle handle, u32 Level, void *context, void
> **retval) {
>  	acpi_status status;
> -	unsigned long long tmp;
> +	unsigned long long tmp = 0;
>
>  	struct acpi_ec *ec = context;
>  	status = acpi_walk_resources(handle, METHOD_NAME__CRS,
> @@ -784,6 +784,7 @@ ec_parse_device(acpi_handle handle, u32
>  		return status;
>  	ec->gpe = tmp;
>  	/* Use the global lock for all EC transactions? */
> +	tmp = 0;
>  	acpi_evaluate_integer(handle, "_GLK", NULL, &tmp);
>  	ec->global_lock = tmp;
>  	ec->handle = handle;

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