[PATCH] platform/x86: intel_telemetry: initialize default trace verbosity

From: Aleksandrova Alyona

Date: Mon Sep 14 2026 - 06:03:33 EST


telemetry_def_get_trace_verbosity() returns success without initializing
the output verbosity value.

The default telemetry operations are installed when the core driver is
initialized and again by telemetry_clear_pltdata() when the platform
driver is removed. The telemetry debugfs files can remain available after
the platform driver removal.

A subsequent read of pss_trace_verbosity or ioss_trace_verbosity calls
telemetry_get_trace_verbosity(), which may use the default callback and
return success without setting verbosity. The uninitialized value is then
passed to seq_printf().

Validate the output pointer and initialize the default verbosity to zero
so callers never use an uninitialized value after a successful call.

Found by Linux Verification Center (linuxtesting.org) with SVACE.

Fixes: 378f956e3f93 ("platform/x86: Add Intel Telemetry Core Driver")
Signed-off-by: Aleksandrova Alyona <aga@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/platform/x86/intel_telemetry_core.c | 4 ++++
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/drivers/platform/x86/intel_telemetry_core.c b/drivers/platform/x86/intel_telemetry_core.c
index e4be40f73eebf..6a1e9df26ba1b 100644
--- a/drivers/platform/x86/intel_telemetry_core.c
+++ b/drivers/platform/x86/intel_telemetry_core.c
@@ -51,6 +51,10 @@ static int telemetry_def_get_eventconfig(
static int telemetry_def_get_trace_verbosity(enum telemetry_unit telem_unit,
u32 *verbosity)
{
+ if (!verbosity)
+ return -EINVAL;
+
+ *verbosity = 0;
return 0;
}

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2.26.2