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

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Date:   Sat, 26 Feb 2022 16:08:48 +0300
From:   Pavel Skripkin <paskripkin@...il.com>
To:     Paulo Miguel Almeida <paulo.miguel.almeida.rodenas@...il.com>,
        gregkh@...uxfoundation.org, realwakka@...il.com
Cc:     linux-staging@...ts.linux.dev, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] staging: pi433: prevent uninitialized data from being
 printed out

Hi Paulo Miguel,

On 2/26/22 07:25, Paulo Miguel Almeida wrote:
> 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>

I think, it should have a Fixes: tag.

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

Worth mentioning Dan with Reported-by/Suggested-by: :)

> 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/
> ---

You can send all these patches as a patch series with proper order. It 
will help maintainers to not break the order while applying.

>   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) {




With regards,
Pavel Skripkin