Re: [PATCH] crypto: x86/sha1: fix coverity CID 1195603

[Milos Vyletel]

And this time in plain text...

Most likely yes but I wanted to keep sha1_ssse3_mod_init consistent
with sha256_ssse3_mod_init/sha512_ssse3_mod_init functions.

Milos

On Tue, May 6, 2014 at 4:28 AM, Pavel Machek <pavel@xxxxxx> wrote:
> On Wed 2014-04-30 15:17:54, Milos Vyletel wrote:
>> Coverity detected possible use of uninitialized pointer when printing info
>> message during module load. While this is higly unlikely to cause any troubles
>> simple change in sha1_ssse3_mod_init to make it look like sha256/512 init
>> function will fix this.
>>
>> 260
>>       6. Condition sha1_transform_asm, taking true branch
>> 261        if (sha1_transform_asm) {
>>
>> CID 1195603 (#1 of 1): Uninitialized pointer read (UNINIT)
>> 7. uninit_use_in_call: Using uninitialized value algo_name when calling printk.
>> 262                pr_info("Using %s optimized SHA-1 implementation\n", algo_name);
>> 263                return crypto_register_shash(&alg);
>> 264        }
>>
>> Reported-by: <scan-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> Signed-off-by: Milos Vyletel <milos.vyletel@xxxxxxxxx>
>> ---
>>  arch/x86/crypto/sha1_ssse3_glue.c | 22 ++++++++++++----------
>>  1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/arch/x86/crypto/sha1_ssse3_glue.c b/arch/x86/crypto/sha1_ssse3_glue.c
>> index 74d16ef..5352196 100644
>> --- a/arch/x86/crypto/sha1_ssse3_glue.c
>> +++ b/arch/x86/crypto/sha1_ssse3_glue.c
>> @@ -235,31 +235,33 @@ static bool __init avx2_usable(void)
>>
>>  static int __init sha1_ssse3_mod_init(void)
>>  {
>> -     char *algo_name;
>> -
>
> Would simple "algo_name = NULL" be enough to fix this?
>
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