Re: [patch] PCI: acpiphp_ibm: potential uninitialized variable bug

From: Bjorn Helgaas
Date: Fri Apr 15 2016 - 11:34:32 EST


On Fri, Apr 15, 2016 at 05:51:06PM +0300, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> If ibm_get_table_from_acpi() fails then "table" isn't initialized. I
> fixed this by adding a check for failure.
>
> Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx>

Applied to pci/hotplug for v4.7, thanks, Dan!

> diff --git a/drivers/pci/hotplug/acpiphp_ibm.c b/drivers/pci/hotplug/acpiphp_ibm.c
> index 2f6d3a1..f6221d7 100644
> --- a/drivers/pci/hotplug/acpiphp_ibm.c
> +++ b/drivers/pci/hotplug/acpiphp_ibm.c
> @@ -138,6 +138,8 @@ static union apci_descriptor *ibm_slot_from_id(int id)
> char *table;
>
> size = ibm_get_table_from_acpi(&table);
> + if (size < 0)
> + return NULL;
> des = (union apci_descriptor *)table;
> if (memcmp(des->header.sig, "aPCI", 4) != 0)
> goto ibm_slot_done;
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