Re: [PATCH] wifi: wil6210: debugfs: fix uninitialized variable use in `wil_write_file_wmi()`

From: Kalle Valo
Date: Wed Jul 27 2022 - 06:20:53 EST


Ammar Faizi <ammarfaizi2@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Commit 7a4836560a61 changes simple_write_to_buffer() with memdup_user()
> but it forgets to change the value to be returned that came from
> simple_write_to_buffer() call. It results in the following warning:
>
> warning: variable 'rc' is uninitialized when used here [-Wuninitialized]
> return rc;
> ^~
>
> Remove rc variable and just return the passed in length if the
> memdup_user() succeeds.
>
> Cc: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Reported-by: kernel test robot <lkp@xxxxxxxxx>
> Fixes: 7a4836560a6198d245d5732e26f94898b12eb760 ("wifi: wil6210: debugfs: fix info leak in wil_write_file_wmi()")
> Fixes: ff974e4083341383d3dd4079e52ed30f57f376f0 ("wil6210: debugfs interface to send raw WMI command")
> Signed-off-by: Ammar Faizi <ammarfaizi2@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Reviewed-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <quic_kvalo@xxxxxxxxxxx>

Patch applied to ath-next branch of ath.git, thanks.

d578e0af3a00 wifi: wil6210: debugfs: fix uninitialized variable use in `wil_write_file_wmi()`

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