linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] tty: Fix potentialy used uninitialized variable

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Date:	Sat, 8 Aug 2015 11:37:27 +0200
From:	Richard Weinberger <richard.weinberger@...il.com>
To:	Tomer Barletz <barletz@...il.com>
Cc:	Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>, jslaby@...e.com,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] tty: Fix potentialy used uninitialized variable

On Sat, Aug 8, 2015 at 11:24 AM, Tomer Barletz <barletz@...il.com> wrote:
> Initialize size to 0, as it may be used uninitialized in case
> read_mem32() fails.

Instead of papering over the issue better cleanup read_mem32() such that
a failure can be detected. :-)

-- 
Thanks,
//richard
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