linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] usb: usb5303: make use of uninitialized err variable

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Date:	Thu, 10 Jul 2014 09:38:00 +0200
From:	Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@...ux-m68k.org>
To:	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Cc:	Emil Goode <emilgoode@...il.com>, Mark Brown <broonie@...aro.org>,
	Olof Johansson <olof@...om.net>,
	Dongjin Kim <tobetter@...il.com>,
	Julius Werner <jwerner@...omium.org>,
	Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski@...sung.com>,
	USB list <linux-usb@...r.kernel.org>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org" <kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] usb: usb5303: make use of uninitialized err variable

Hi Greg,

On Thu, Jul 10, 2014 at 12:46 AM, Greg Kroah-Hartman
<gregkh@...uxfoundation.org> wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 02, 2014 at 07:45:25PM +0200, Emil Goode wrote:
>> The variable err is not initialized here, this patch uses it
>> to store an eventual error value from devm_clk_get().
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Emil Goode <emilgoode@...il.com>
>> Acked-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@...ux-m68k.org>
>> ---
>>  drivers/usb/misc/usb3503.c |   10 +++++++---
>>  1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

> This patch fails to apply to my tree :(

You've already applied
commit ec5734c41bee2ee7c938a8f34853d31cada7e67a
Author: Tushar Behera <tushar.b@...sung.com>
Date:   Tue Jun 17 16:38:50 2014 +0530

    usb: misc: usb3503: Update error code in print message

    'err' is uninitialized, rather print the error code directly.

which fixes it slightly different.

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

--
Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert@...ux-m68k.org

In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But
when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that.
                                -- Linus Torvalds
--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at  http://www.tux.org/lkml/