[PATCH v3] platform/x86: intel_telemetry: initialize default trace verbosity
From: Aleksandrova Alyona
Date: Thu Sep 17 2026 - 07:18:13 EST
telemetry_def_get_trace_verbosity() returns success without initializing
the output verbosity value.
The default telemetry operations are installed when the core driver is
initialized and again by telemetry_clear_pltdata() when the platform
driver is removed. The telemetry debugfs files can remain available after
the platform driver removal.
A subsequent read of pss_trace_verbosity or ioss_trace_verbosity calls
telemetry_get_trace_verbosity(), which may use the default callback and
return success without setting verbosity. The uninitialized value is then
passed to seq_printf().
Validate the output pointer and initialize the default verbosity to zero
so callers never use an uninitialized value after a successful call.
Found by Linux Verification Center (linuxtesting.org) with SVACE.
Fixes: 378f956e3f93 ("platform/x86: Add Intel Telemetry Core Driver")
Signed-off-by: Aleksandrova Alyona <aga@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
v3: Add the missing revision history as requested by Ilpo Järvinen.
v2: Rebase onto the current master branch and update the file path after
Intel telemetry was moved to drivers/platform/x86/intel/telemetry/core.c.
drivers/platform/x86/intel/telemetry/core.c | 4 ++++
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
diff --git a/drivers/platform/x86/intel/telemetry/core.c b/drivers/platform/x86/intel/telemetry/core.c
index f312864b8d07a..62299524a07b2 100644
--- a/drivers/platform/x86/intel/telemetry/core.c
+++ b/drivers/platform/x86/intel/telemetry/core.c
@@ -24,6 +24,10 @@ static struct telemetry_core_config telm_core_conf;
static int telemetry_def_get_trace_verbosity(enum telemetry_unit telem_unit,
u32 *verbosity)
{
+ if (!verbosity)
+ return -EINVAL;
+
+ *verbosity = 0;
return 0;
}
--
2.26.2