Re: [PATCH] qtnfmac: avoid uninitialized variable access

From: Sergey Matyukevich
Date: Wed Oct 10 2018 - 10:56:41 EST


> > 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.

Regards,
Sergey