linux-kernel - [PATCH] staging: pi433: prevent uninitialized data from being printed out

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Date:   Sat, 26 Feb 2022 17:25:31 +1300
From:   Paulo Miguel Almeida <paulo.miguel.almeida.rodenas@...il.com>
To:     gregkh@...uxfoundation.org, paulo.miguel.almeida.rodenas@...il.com,
        realwakka@...il.com
Cc:     linux-staging@...ts.linux.dev, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] staging: pi433: prevent uninitialized data from being
 printed out

local_buffer is not initialised before data is passed to
spi_sync_transfer. In case spi* function fails then the dev_dbg
statement after that can potentially print out uninitialised data

this patch initialises local_buffer array.

Signed-off-by: Paulo Miguel Almeida <paulo.miguel.almeida.rodenas@...il.com>
---
Meta-comments:

- this change was requested by Dan Carpenter in a different thread:
https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20220207100601.GF1951@kadam/

Patch dependency:

- this patch depends on the following patch to be applied first as
both of them change the same file:
https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/Yhla4a1Clpguoo2h@mail.google.com/
---
 drivers/staging/pi433/rf69.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/staging/pi433/rf69.c b/drivers/staging/pi433/rf69.c
index e5b23ab39c69..3028018f0b45 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/pi433/rf69.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/pi433/rf69.c
@@ -782,7 +782,7 @@ int rf69_read_fifo(struct spi_device *spi, u8 *buffer, unsigned int size)
 {
 	int i;
 	struct spi_transfer transfer;
-	u8 local_buffer[FIFO_SIZE + 1];
+	u8 local_buffer[FIFO_SIZE + 1] = {};
 	int retval;
 
 	if (size > FIFO_SIZE) {
-- 
2.34.1