linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH][next] staging: wfx: fix uninitialized variable bytes

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Date:   Mon, 06 Jul 2020 15:29:19 +0200
From:   Jérôme Pouiller <jerome.pouiller@...abs.com>
To:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        devel@...verdev.osuosl.org, Colin King <colin.king@...onical.com>
Cc:     kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH][next] staging: wfx: fix uninitialized variable bytes_done

On Monday 6 July 2020 15:20:17 CEST Colin King wrote:
> 
> From: Colin Ian King <colin.king@...onical.com>
> 
> The variable bytes_done is not initialized and hence the first
> FIFO size check on bytes_done may be breaking prematurely from
> the loop if bytes_done contains a large bogus uninitialized value.
> Fix this by initializing bytes_done to zero.
> 
> Addresses-Coverity: ("Uninitialized scalar variable")
> Fixes: a9408ad79ff3 ("staging: wfx: load the firmware faster")
> Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king@...onical.com>

Good catch!

I am surprised that my gcc hasn't caught that.

Reviewed-by: Jérôme Pouiller <jerome.pouiller@...abs.com>


> ---
>  drivers/staging/wfx/fwio.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/staging/wfx/fwio.c b/drivers/staging/wfx/fwio.c
> index d9a886f3e64b..206c6cf6511c 100644
> --- a/drivers/staging/wfx/fwio.c
> +++ b/drivers/staging/wfx/fwio.c
> @@ -177,7 +177,7 @@ static int wait_ncp_status(struct wfx_dev *wdev, u32 status)
>  static int upload_firmware(struct wfx_dev *wdev, const u8 *data, size_t len)
>  {
>         int ret;
> -       u32 offs, bytes_done;
> +       u32 offs, bytes_done = 0;
>         ktime_t now, start;
> 
>         if (len % DNLD_BLOCK_SIZE) {
> --
> 2.27.0
> 
> 


-- 
Jérôme Pouiller