linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] gpiolib: cdev: fix uninitialised kfifo

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Date: Tue, 14 May 2024 11:36:56 +0800
From: Kent Gibson <warthog618@...il.com>
To: Bartosz Golaszewski <brgl@...ev.pl>
Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-gpio@...r.kernel.org,
	linus.walleij@...aro.org,
	Bartosz Golaszewski <bartosz.golaszewski@...aro.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] gpiolib: cdev: fix uninitialised kfifo

On Fri, May 10, 2024 at 04:06:16PM +0200, Bartosz Golaszewski wrote:
> From: Bartosz Golaszewski <bartosz.golaszewski@...aro.org>
>
>
> On Fri, 10 May 2024 14:53:42 +0800, Kent Gibson wrote:
> > If a line is requested with debounce, and that results in debouncing
> > in software, and the line is subsequently reconfigured to enable edge
> > detection then the allocation of the kfifo to contain edge events is
> > overlooked.  This results in events being written to and read from an
> > unitialised kfifo.  Read events are returned to userspace.
> >
> > Initialise the kfifo in the case where the software debounce is
> > already active.
> >
> > [...]
>
> Applied, thanks!
>
> [1/1] gpiolib: cdev: fix uninitialised kfifo
>       commit: 3c1625fe5a2e0d68cd7b68156f02c1b5de09a161
>

I've got a patch series to tidy this up and catch any similar errors
earlier going forward.
It is of course based on this patch, but that isn't in gpio/for-next yet.
How should I proceed?

Cheers,
Kent.