linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] scsi: advansys: fix uninitialized data access

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Date:   Tue, 04 Apr 2017 19:40:27 -0400
From:   "Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@...cle.com>
To:     Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
Cc:     Matthew Wilcox <mawilcox@...rosoft.com>,
        Hannes Reinecke <hare@...e.com>,
        "James E.J. Bottomley" <jejb@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
        "Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@...cle.com>,
        linux-scsi@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] scsi: advansys: fix uninitialized data access

Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de> writes:

Arnd,

> drivers/scsi/advansys.c: In function 'AscMsgOutSDTR':
> drivers/scsi/advansys.c:3860:26: error: '*((void *)&sdtr_buf+5)' may be used uninitialized in this function [-Werror=maybe-uninitialized]
>          ((ushort)s_buffer[i + 1] << 8) | s_buffer[i]);
>                           ^
> drivers/scsi/advansys.c:3860:26: error: '*((void *)&sdtr_buf+7)' may be used uninitialized in this function [-Werror=maybe-uninitialized]
> drivers/scsi/advansys.c:3860:26: error: '*((void *)&sdtr_buf+5)' may be used uninitialized in this function [-Werror=maybe-uninitialized]
> drivers/scsi/advansys.c:3860:26: error: '*((void *)&sdtr_buf+7)' may be used uninitialized in this function [-Werror=maybe-uninitialized]
>
> The code has existed in this exact form at least since v2.6.12, and the
> warning seems correct. This uses named initializers to ensure we initialize
> all members of the structure.
>  					(uchar *)&sdtr_buf,

Applied to 4.12/scsi-queue, thanks!

-- 
Martin K. Petersen	Oracle Linux Engineering