netdev - Re: [PATCH net-XXX] net: dsa: qca8k: uninitialized variable in hw_control

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Date: Sun, 11 Jun 2023 18:04:31 +0200
From: Christian Marangi <ansuelsmth@...il.com>
To: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...aro.org>
Cc: Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>, Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com>,
	Vladimir Oltean <olteanv@...il.com>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
	Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>, Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>,
	Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-XXX] net: dsa: qca8k: uninitialized variable in
 hw_control_get()

On Mon, Jun 12, 2023 at 10:20:55AM +0300, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> The caller, netdev_trig_activate(), passes an uninitialized value for
> *rules.  This function sets bits to one but it doesn't zero out any
> bits so there is a potential for uninitialized data to be used.
> Zero out the *rules at the start of the function.
> 
> Fixes: e0256648c831 ("net: dsa: qca8k: implement hw_control ops")
> Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...aro.org>

Thanks for the fix but I wonder if this should be better fixed in
netdev_trig_activate? By setting the mode as 0 directly there?

I assume other dev implementing the get ops would do the same mistake.

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