Re: [PATCH v2] platform/x86: intel_telemetry: initialize default trace verbosity
From: Ilpo Järvinen
Date: Tue Sep 15 2026 - 08:53:48 EST
On Tue, 15 Sep 2026, Aleksandrova Alyona wrote:
> 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>
> ---
You're missing the information on what is changed in v2?!
> 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 f312864b8d07a..62299524a07b2 100644
> --- a/drivers/platform/x86/intel/telemetry/core.c
> +++ b/drivers/platform/x86/intel/telemetry/core.c
> @@ -24,6 +24,10 @@ static struct telemetry_core_config telm_core_conf;
> 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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