linux-kernel - [PATCH] ALSA: au88x0: avoid theoretical uninitialized access

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Date:   Thu, 23 Mar 2017 16:15:55 +0100
From:   Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
To:     Jaroslav Kysela <perex@...ex.cz>, Takashi Iwai <tiwai@...e.com>
Cc:     Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>,
        Colin Ian King <colin.king@...onical.com>,
        alsa-devel@...a-project.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] ALSA: au88x0: avoid theoretical uninitialized access

The latest gcc-7.0.1 snapshot points out that we if nr_ch is zero, we never
initialize some variables:

sound/pci/au88x0/au88x0_core.c: In function 'vortex_adb_allocroute':
sound/pci/au88x0/au88x0_core.c:2304:68: error: 'mix[0]' may be used uninitialized in this function [-Werror=maybe-uninitialized]
sound/pci/au88x0/au88x0_core.c:2305:58: error: 'src[0]' may be used uninitialized in this function [-Werror=maybe-uninitialized]

I assume this can never happen in practice, but adding a check here doesn't
hurt either and avoids the warning. The code has been unchanged since
the start of git history.

Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
---
 sound/pci/au88x0/au88x0_core.c | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/sound/pci/au88x0/au88x0_core.c b/sound/pci/au88x0/au88x0_core.c
index e1af24f87566..c308a4f70550 100644
--- a/sound/pci/au88x0/au88x0_core.c
+++ b/sound/pci/au88x0/au88x0_core.c
@@ -2279,6 +2279,9 @@ vortex_adb_allocroute(vortex_t *vortex, int dma, int nr_ch, int dir,
 	} else {
 		int src[2], mix[2];
 
+		if (nr_ch < 1)
+			return -EINVAL;
+
 		/* Get SRC and MIXER hardware resources. */
 		for (i = 0; i < nr_ch; i++) {
 			if ((mix[i] =
-- 
2.9.0