netdev - Re: [UNTESTED PATCH] net/usb: kalmia: Fix uninit-value in kalmia_send_init

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Message-ID: <a9d5c49536b3dc5039d981952aa60db6266516e2.camel@gmail.com>
Date:   Tue, 31 Jan 2023 12:48:54 +0100
From:   Miko Larsson <mikoxyzzz@...il.com>
To:     Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Cc:     "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
        Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>,
        Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>, linux-usb@...r.kernel.org,
        netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [UNTESTED PATCH] net/usb: kalmia: Fix uninit-value in
 kalmia_send_init_packet

On Tue, 2023-01-31 at 12:37 +0100, Greg KH wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 31, 2023 at 12:14:54PM +0100, Miko Larsson wrote:
> > > From ef617d8df22945b871ab989e25c07d7c60ae21f6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00
> > > 2001
> > From: Miko Larsson <mikoxyzzz@...il.com>
> > Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2023 11:01:20 +0100
> 
> Why is this in the changelog text?
D'oh, sorry about that. Imported the patch directly into Evolution
without trimming that away.

> > Subject: [UNTESTED PATCH] net/usb: kalmia: Fix uninit-value in
> > kalmia_send_init_packet
> > 
> > syzbot reports that act_len in kalmia_send_init_packet() is
> > uninitialized. Attempt to fix this by initializing it to 0.
> 
> You can send patches to syzbot to have it test things, have you tried
> that?
Didn't know that, will try!

-- 
~miko