netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next] net: microchip: sparx5: prevent uninitialized variable

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Message-ID: <519cbacf20b10909ee362e0bcc9aa87cbb7137f3.camel@redhat.com>
Date:   Thu, 17 Nov 2022 16:03:07 +0100
From:   Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>
To:     Dan Carpenter <error27@...il.com>,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Daniel Machon <daniel.machon@...rochip.com>
Cc:     Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
        Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>,
        Lars Povlsen <lars.povlsen@...rochip.com>,
        Steen Hegelund <Steen.Hegelund@...rochip.com>,
        UNGLinuxDriver@...rochip.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] net: microchip: sparx5: prevent uninitialized
 variable

Hello,

On Tue, 2022-11-15 at 16:14 +0300, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> Smatch complains that:
> 
>     drivers/net/ethernet/microchip/sparx5/sparx5_dcb.c:112
>     sparx5_dcb_apptrust_validate() error: uninitialized symbol 'match'.
> 
> This would only happen if the:
> 
> 	if (sparx5_dcb_apptrust_policies[i].nselectors != nselectors)
> 
> condition is always true (they are not equal).  The "nselectors"
> variable comes from dcbnl_ieee_set() and it is a number between 0-256.
> This seems like a probably a real bug.
> 
> Fixes: 23f8382cd95d ("net: microchip: sparx5: add support for apptrust")
> Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>

checkpatch complains about the From/SoB mismatch - 
'Dan Carpenter <error27@...il.com>' vs 'Dan Carpenter
<dan.carpenter@...cle.com>'

Could you please send a v2 addressing that?

thanks!

Paolo