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From: Ike Panhc <ike.pan@canonical.com>
To: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
Cc: Matthew Garrett <mjg@redhat.com>,
	platform-driver-x86@vger.kernel.org,
	kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch] ideapad: uninitialized data in ideapad_acpi_add()
Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2012 12:23:13 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4FE1C0B1.9050901@canonical.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120612162850.GB11077@elgon.mountain>

Hi Dan,

# cat /sys/kernel/debug/ideapad/cfg
cfg: 0xFFFF8800007DE140
       ^^^^^^^^ the uninitialized bit

I see your point, perhaps unsigned int will be better then int?


On 06/13/2012 12:28 AM, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> We only initialize the high bits of "cfg".  It probably doesn't cause
> a problem given that this is platform specific code and doesn't have to
> worry about endianness etc.  But it's sort of messy.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
> ---
> This is a static checker fix and I don't have the hardware.  Sorry.
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/platform/x86/ideapad-laptop.c b/drivers/platform/x86/ideapad-laptop.c
> index 4f20f8d..17f6dfd 100644
> --- a/drivers/platform/x86/ideapad-laptop.c
> +++ b/drivers/platform/x86/ideapad-laptop.c
> @@ -694,10 +694,10 @@ MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE(acpi, ideapad_device_ids);
>  static int __devinit ideapad_acpi_add(struct acpi_device *adevice)
>  {
>  	int ret, i;
> -	unsigned long cfg;
> +	int cfg;
>  	struct ideapad_private *priv;
>  
> -	if (read_method_int(adevice->handle, "_CFG", (int *)&cfg))
> +	if (read_method_int(adevice->handle, "_CFG", &cfg))
>  		return -ENODEV;
>  
>  	priv = kzalloc(sizeof(*priv), GFP_KERNEL);
> @@ -721,7 +721,7 @@ static int __devinit ideapad_acpi_add(struct acpi_device *adevice)
>  		goto input_failed;
>  
>  	for (i = 0; i < IDEAPAD_RFKILL_DEV_NUM; i++) {
> -		if (test_bit(ideapad_rfk_data[i].cfgbit, &cfg))
> +		if (test_bit(ideapad_rfk_data[i].cfgbit, &priv->cfg))
>  			ideapad_register_rfkill(adevice, i);
>  		else
>  			priv->rfk[i] = NULL;
> --
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  reply	other threads:[~2012-06-20 12:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-06-12 16:28 [patch] ideapad: uninitialized data in ideapad_acpi_add() Dan Carpenter
2012-06-20 12:23 ` Ike Panhc [this message]
2012-06-22 13:57   ` Dan Carpenter
2012-06-28  9:52     ` Ike Panhc

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