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Message-ID: <2024082315-capably-broiler-b4e6@gregkh>
Date: Fri, 23 Aug 2024 08:14:08 +0800
From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To: Zijun Hu <zijun_hu@...oud.com>
Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael@...nel.org>,
	Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@...il.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Zijun Hu <quic_zijuhu@...cinc.com>,
	stable@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] driver core: Fix an uninitialized variable is used by
 __device_attach()

On Fri, Aug 23, 2024 at 07:46:09AM +0800, Zijun Hu wrote:
> From: Zijun Hu <quic_zijuhu@...cinc.com>
> 
> An uninitialized variable @data.have_async may be used as analyzed
> by the following inline comments:
> 
> static int __device_attach(struct device *dev, bool allow_async)
> {
> 	// if @allow_async is true.
> 
> 	...
> 	struct device_attach_data data = {
> 		.dev = dev,
> 		.check_async = allow_async,
> 		.want_async = false,
> 	};
> 	// @data.have_async is not initialized.

As Dmitry said, this is incorrect, please fix your broken code analysis
tool, it is obviously not working properly :(

thanks,

greg k-h

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