Re: [PATCH] media: vidtv: fix uninitialized args.buf_sz passed by value

From: Thomas Weißschuh

Date: Fri Feb 20 2026 - 11:33:21 EST


On Fri, Feb 20, 2026 at 03:58:13PM +0100, Abd-Alrhman Masalkhi wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 20, 2026 at 14:56 +0100, Thomas Weißschuh wrote:

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> >> Thomas, would it be worth submitting a separate patch now to fix
> >> `vidtv_ts_pcr_write_into()` to prevent future KMSAN errors? Or would you
> >> prefer this to be addressed together in Abd-Alrhman's v2?
> >
> > Doing it together sounds better. This is not urgent anyways in my opinion.
> > But on the other hand I am just a random guy whose commit got wrongly blamed
> > in the original Fixes tag and I don't know anything about this subsystem.
> >
> Sorry, I have misunderstood how the 'Fixes' tag works.

No need to be sorry. I didn't want to come across grumpy, but wanted to
express that I am just a bystander and have no authority over this code.


Thomas