Re: [PATCH 1/2] crypto: stm32 - Fix uninitialized data usage

From: Lionel DEBIEVE
Date: Mon Sep 18 2017 - 05:37:24 EST


Hi Arnd,

I've already push this fix for review last month, waiting the ack.

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From: Lionel Debieve <lionel.debieve@xxxxxx>
To: Herbert Xu <herbert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, "David S . Miller"
<davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Maxime Coquelin <mcoquelin.stm32@xxxxxxxxx>, Alexandre
Torgue <alexandre.torgue@xxxxxx>, <linux-crypto@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
<linux-arm-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, <linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
CC: Benjamin Gaignard <benjamin.gaignard@xxxxxx>, Fabien Dessenne
<fabien.dessenne@xxxxxx>, Ludovic Barre <ludovic.barre@xxxxxx>
Subject: [PATCH 1/1] crypto: stm32/hash - Remove uninitialized symbol
Date: Fri, 18 Aug 2017 15:54:01 +0200
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Sorry if you receive this mail twice, I didn't see any mail in the mailing list, maybe server issue.

I'm reviewing your second part patch.

BR,

Lionel

> On 09/12/2017 11:35 AM, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
>> The error handling in stm32_hash_irq_thread passes
>> uninitialized data into stm32_hash_finish_req, as gcc
>> points out:
>> drivers/crypto/stm32/stm32-hash.c: In function 'stm32_hash_irq_thread':
>> drivers/crypto/stm32/stm32-hash.c:1088:2: error: 'err' may be used uninitialized in this function [-Werror=maybe-uninitialized]
>> I could not tell what data should be passed there instead,
>> so this changes the code to always pass zero, making it
>> well-defined, though possibly still wrong. Please check.
>> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>
>> ---
>> drivers/crypto/stm32/stm32-hash.c | 3 +--
>> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)
>> diff --git a/drivers/crypto/stm32/stm32-hash.c b/drivers/crypto/stm32/stm32-hash.c
>> index b585ce54a802..3c23a23e9ee5 100644
>> --- a/drivers/crypto/stm32/stm32-hash.c
>> +++ b/drivers/crypto/stm32/stm32-hash.c
>> @@ -1067,7 +1067,6 @@ static int stm32_hash_cra_sha256_init(struct crypto_tfm *tfm)
>> static irqreturn_t stm32_hash_irq_thread(int irq, void *dev_id)
>> {
>> struct stm32_hash_dev *hdev = dev_id;
>> - int err;
>>
>> if (HASH_FLAGS_CPU & hdev->flags) {
>> if (HASH_FLAGS_OUTPUT_READY & hdev->flags) {
>> @@ -1085,7 +1084,7 @@ static irqreturn_t stm32_hash_irq_thread(int irq, void *dev_id)
>>
>> finish:
>> /*Finish current request */
>> - stm32_hash_finish_req(hdev->req, err);
>> + stm32_hash_finish_req(hdev->req, 0);
>>
>> return IRQ_HANDLED;
>> }
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