linux-kernel - [PATCH] net: hisilicon: Fix usage of uninitialized variable in function mdio_sc_cfg_reg

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Message-Id: <20191001202439.15766-1-yzhai003@ucr.edu>
Date:   Tue,  1 Oct 2019 13:24:39 -0700
From:   Yizhuo <yzhai003@....edu>
To:     unlisted-recipients:; (no To-header on input)
Cc:     csong@...ucr.edu, zhiyunq@...ucr.edu, Yizhuo <yzhai003@....edu>,
        Yisen Zhuang <yisen.zhuang@...wei.com>,
        Salil Mehta <salil.mehta@...wei.com>,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] net: hisilicon: Fix usage of uninitialized variable in function mdio_sc_cfg_reg_write()

In function mdio_sc_cfg_reg_write(), variable "reg_value" could be
uninitialized if regmap_read() fails. However, "reg_value" is used
to decide the control flow later in the if statement, which is
potentially unsafe.

Signed-off-by: Yizhuo <yzhai003@....edu>
---
 drivers/net/ethernet/hisilicon/hns_mdio.c | 6 +++++-
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/hisilicon/hns_mdio.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/hisilicon/hns_mdio.c
index 3e863a71c513..7df5d7d211d4 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/hisilicon/hns_mdio.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/hisilicon/hns_mdio.c
@@ -148,11 +148,15 @@ static int mdio_sc_cfg_reg_write(struct hns_mdio_device *mdio_dev,
 {
 	u32 time_cnt;
 	u32 reg_value;
+	int ret;
 
 	regmap_write(mdio_dev->subctrl_vbase, cfg_reg, set_val);
 
 	for (time_cnt = MDIO_TIMEOUT; time_cnt; time_cnt--) {
-		regmap_read(mdio_dev->subctrl_vbase, st_reg, &reg_value);
+		ret = regmap_read(mdio_dev->subctrl_vbase, st_reg, &reg_value);
+		if (ret)
+			return ret;
+
 		reg_value &= st_msk;
 		if ((!!check_st) == (!!reg_value))
 			break;
-- 
2.17.1