Re: [PATCH 1/1] staging: iio: initialize data pointer before using it

From: Jonathan Cameron
Date: Sun Jun 19 2016 - 07:59:36 EST


On 19/06/16 11:03, Nicolas Iooss wrote:
> On 06/19/2016 11:41 AM, Lars-Peter Clausen wrote:
>> On 06/18/2016 11:12 PM, Nicolas Iooss wrote:
>>> ad7606_spi_read_block() reads SPI big-endian data into a buffer which is
>>> then converted to CPU byte-order with a second variable. This variable,
>>> data, has been left unitialized after commit 87787e5ef727 ("Staging:
>>> iio: Fix sparse endian warning").
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Thanks for the patch. A similar patch was already merged last week.
>
> Nice :) Actually I sent this patch because the bug is still present in
> linux-next tree [1] and I failed to see a reference to a dedicated
> development tree in MAINTAINERS.
>
This is just me being slow at sending a pull request.

Good point of the lack of a listed development tree. Will fix that so
no one else wastes their time as you have.

Sorry about that!

Jonathan
> Thanks for your quick reply!
>
> -- Nicolas
>
> [1]
> https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/next/linux-next.git/tree/drivers/staging/iio/adc/ad7606_spi.c
>
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