linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH][net-next] net: hns3: ensure media

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Date:   Thu, 17 Aug 2017 10:06:35 -0700 (PDT)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     colin.king@...onical.com
Cc:     yisen.zhuang@...wei.com, salil.mehta@...wei.com,
        huangdaode@...ilicon.com, lipeng321@...wei.com,
        netdev@...r.kernel.org, kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH][net-next] net: hns3: ensure media_type is unitialized

From: Colin King <colin.king@...onical.com>
Date: Thu, 17 Aug 2017 10:01:07 +0100

> From: Colin Ian King <colin.king@...onical.com>
> 
> Media type is only set if h->ae_algo->ops->get_media_type is called
> so there is a possibility that media_type is uninitialized when it is
> used a switch statement.  Fix this by initializing media_type to
> HNAE3_MEDIA_TYPE_UNKNOWN.
> 
> Detected by CoverityScan, CID#1452624("Uninitialized scalar variable")
> 
> Fixes: 496d03e960ae ("net: hns3: Add Ethtool support to HNS3 driver")
> Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king@...onical.com>

Applied.