linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] wifi: ath12k: sanitize ath12k_mac

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Message-Id: <08ac32ef-610d-479d-a3fd-a3c3b8c4c697@app.fastmail.com>
Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2024 11:37:52 +0100
From: "Arnd Bergmann" <arnd@...db.de>
To: "Kalle Valo" <kvalo@...nel.org>, "Arnd Bergmann" <arnd@...nel.org>
Cc: "Jeff Johnson" <quic_jjohnson@...cinc.com>,
 "Karthikeyan Periyasamy" <quic_periyasa@...cinc.com>,
 "Aloka Dixit" <quic_alokad@...cinc.com>, "Wen Gong" <quic_wgong@...cinc.com>,
 "Muna Sinada" <quic_msinada@...cinc.com>,
 "Aditya Kumar Singh" <quic_adisi@...cinc.com>, ath12k@...ts.infradead.org,
 linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] wifi: ath12k: sanitize ath12k_mac_allocate() return code

On Wed, Feb 14, 2024, at 09:44, Kalle Valo wrote:
> Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...nel.org> wrote:
>
>> The return code has no initializer:
>> 
>> drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath12k/mac.c:8006:9: error: variable 'ret' is uninitialized when used here [-Werror,-Wuninitialized]
>> 
>> Make it return -ENOMEM for allocation failures and remove the unused
>> variable instead.
>> 
>> Fixes: 6db6e70a17f6 ("wifi: ath12k: Introduce the container for mac80211 hw")
>> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
>> Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <quic_kvalo@...cinc.com>
>
> Nathan already fixed this:
>
> https://git.kernel.org/kvalo/ath/c/04edb5dc68f4
>
> Patch set to Rejected.

Ok, sounds good. Nathan's patch looks fine to me, but
I see it's not in linux-next yet as of today.

     Arnd