linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] x86/microcode/amd: fix uninitalized structure cp

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Date:   Tue, 14 Jan 2020 13:01:56 +0100
From:   Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>
To:     Colin Ian King <colin.king@...onical.com>
Cc:     Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
        "H . Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>, x86@...nel.org,
        kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86/microcode/amd: fix uninitalized structure cp

On Tue, Jan 14, 2020 at 11:51:43AM +0000, Colin Ian King wrote:
> Starting at load_ucode_amd_bsp(), this initializes a local cp to zero,
> then passes &cp when it calls __load_ucode_amd() as parameter *ret.  In
> __load_ucode_amd a new local cp is created on the stack and *only* is
> assigned here:
> 
>        if (!get_builtin_microcode(&cp, x86_family(cpuid_1_eax)))
>                 cp = find_microcode_in_initrd(path, use_pa);

Is there any case where cp doesn't get assigned here? Either by
get_builtin_microcode() or by find_microcode_in_initrd()?

> I can send a V2 w/o these if it so pleases you. I've had nobody else
> complain about these and we have literally hundreds of Coverity tagged
> issues now accepted in the kernel so that we can trace how fixes are
> found.

Who's "we" and how can "we" trace them? When I see Addresses-Coverity:
how can I trace how a fix is found? How can I find out what that tag
even means?

All I'm asking is to document how one can find out what that tag means
and how it can be used by people looking at that commit message.

Thx.

-- 
Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.

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