From: Kalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org>
To: Colin Ian King <colin.king@canonical.com>
Cc: Arend van Spriel <arend.vanspriel@broadcom.com>,
Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>,
Arend van Spriel <aspriel@gmail.com>,
Franky Lin <franky.lin@broadcom.com>,
Hante Meuleman <hante.meuleman@broadcom.com>,
Chi-hsien Lin <chi-hsien.lin@infineon.com>,
Wright Feng <wright.feng@infineon.com>,
Chung-hsien Hsu <chung-hsien.hsu@infineon.com>,
"David S . Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>,
linux-wireless <linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org>,
brcm80211-dev-list.pdl@broadcom.com,
SHA-cyfmac-dev-list@infineon.com, netdev <netdev@vger.kernel.org>,
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linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH][next] brcmfmac: firmware: Fix uninitialized variable ret
Date: Fri, 06 Aug 2021 15:35:05 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87eeb6bvk6.fsf@codeaurora.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <b2034ac5-0080-a2fb-32ef-61ad50dfd248@canonical.com> (Colin Ian King's message of "Fri, 6 Aug 2021 12:28:29 +0100")
Colin Ian King <colin.king@canonical.com> writes:
> On 06/08/2021 12:23, Arend van Spriel wrote:
>> On 05-08-2021 15:53, Kalle Valo wrote:
>>> Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org> writes:
>>>
>>>> On Tue, Aug 3, 2021 at 5:09 PM Colin King <colin.king@canonical.com>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> From: Colin Ian King <colin.king@canonical.com>
>>>>>
>>>>> Currently the variable ret is uninitialized and is only set if
>>>>> the pointer alt_path is non-null. Fix this by ininitializing ret
>>>>> to zero.
>>>>>
>>>>> Addresses-Coverity: ("Uninitialized scalar variable")
>>>>> Fixes: 5ff013914c62 ("brcmfmac: firmware: Allow per-board firmware
>>>>> binaries")
>>>>> Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king@canonical.com>
>>>>
>>>> Nice catch!
>>>> Reviewed-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>
>>>
>>> I assume this will be fixed by Linus' patch "brcmfmac: firmware: Fix
>>> firmware loading" and I should drop Colin's patch, correct?
>>
>> That would be my assumption as well, but not sure when he will submit
>> another revision of it. You probably know what to do ;-)
>
> I'd prefer my patch to be dropped in preference to Linus' fix.
Ok, I'll then drop Colin's patch.
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Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-08-03 15:09 [PATCH][next] brcmfmac: firmware: Fix uninitialized variable ret Colin King
2021-08-03 19:14 ` Linus Walleij
2021-08-05 13:53 ` Kalle Valo
2021-08-06 11:23 ` Arend van Spriel
2021-08-06 11:28 ` Colin Ian King
2021-08-06 12:35 ` Kalle Valo [this message]
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