linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/1] staging: iio: initialize data pointer before using it

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Message-ID: <576668B7.8080609@metafoo.de>
Date:	Sun, 19 Jun 2016 11:41:11 +0200
From:	Lars-Peter Clausen <lars@...afoo.de>
To:	Nicolas Iooss <nicolas.iooss_linux@....org>,
	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 06/18/2016 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.

- Lars