linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] drivers: staging: iio: adc: fix uninitialized use

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Message-ID: <4E118B9D.2070104@cam.ac.uk>
Date:	Mon, 04 Jul 2011 10:45:01 +0100
From:	Jonathan Cameron <jic23@....ac.uk>
To:	Dan Carpenter <error27@...il.com>
CC:	Chris Forbes <chrisf@....co.nz>, devel@...verdev.osuosl.org,
	"linux-iio@...r.kernel.org" <linux-iio@...r.kernel.org>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...e.de>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] drivers: staging: iio: adc: fix uninitialized use

On 07/04/11 10:10, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 04, 2011 at 10:01:11AM +0100, Jonathan Cameron wrote:
>> On 07/03/11 02:47, Chris Forbes wrote:
>>> Fixed an uninitialized variable access. In the first two error paths in
>>> max1363_probe(), 'st' is not yet initialized, but its 'reg' member is
>>> accessed anyway. This would most likely crash.
>> Good spot. Please tech TODO files for staging patches. In this case it would
>> have given you the mailing list, now cc'd.
> 
> It would better to add an entry to MAINTAINERS so that
> ./scripts/get_maintainer.pl gave the right lists.
Perhaps, but Greg KH is anti, so it isn't going to happen.

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