Re: [PATCH] qtnfmac: avoid uninitialized variable access

From: Kalle Valo
Date: Thu Oct 11 2018 - 04:08:49 EST


Sergey Matyukevich <sergey.matyukevich.os@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

>> > When qtnf_trans_send_cmd_with_resp() fails, we have not yet initialized
>> > 'resp', as pointed out by a valid gcc warning:
>> >
>> > drivers/net/wireless/quantenna/qtnfmac/commands.c: In function
>> > 'qtnf_cmd_send_with_reply':
>> > drivers/net/wireless/quantenna/qtnfmac/commands.c:133:54: error:
>> > 'resp' may be used uninitialized in this function
>> > [-Werror=maybe-uninitialized]
>> >
>> > Since 'resp_skb' is also not set here, we can skip all further
>> > processing and just print the warning and return the failure code.
>> >
>> > Fixes: c6ed298ffe09 ("qtnfmac: cleanup and unify command error handling")
>> > Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>
>>
>> Thanks for the patch! And for reminding me that I forgot to enable
>> gcc warnings in CI builds in addition to sparse checks.
>>
>> Reviewed-by: Sergey Matyukevich <sergey.matyukevich.os@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Hi Kalle,
>
> Could you please hold back applying this patch for now. We have got
> another report for the same function, this time static analysis tool
> warning. It looks like the patch from Arnd does not cover both cases.
> So we will take a closer look and send a combined fix later.

Ok, I'll drop this from my queue. Please resend whatever patch I need to
apply.

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Kalle Valo