Re: [PATCH] driver core: Fix an uninitialized variable is used by __device_attach()

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman
Date: Thu Aug 22 2024 - 20:14:16 EST


On Fri, Aug 23, 2024 at 07:46:09AM +0800, Zijun Hu wrote:
> From: Zijun Hu <quic_zijuhu@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> An uninitialized variable @data.have_async may be used as analyzed
> by the following inline comments:
>
> static int __device_attach(struct device *dev, bool allow_async)
> {
> // if @allow_async is true.
>
> ...
> struct device_attach_data data = {
> .dev = dev,
> .check_async = allow_async,
> .want_async = false,
> };
> // @data.have_async is not initialized.

As Dmitry said, this is incorrect, please fix your broken code analysis
tool, it is obviously not working properly :(

thanks,

greg k-h