[PATCH 4.14 118/159] ixgbe: fix use of uninitialized padding

Greg Kroah-Hartman
2017-12-22T09:23:15Z

From: Emil Tantilov <emil.s.tantilov@intel.com>

[ Upstream commit dcfd6b839c998bc9838e2a47f44f37afbdf3099c ]

This patch is resolving Coverity hits where padding in a structure could
be used uninitialized.

- Initialize fwd_cmd.pad/2 before ixgbe_calculate_checksum()

- Initialize buffer.pad2/3 before ixgbe_hic_unlocked()

Signed-off-by: Emil Tantilov <emil.s.tantilov@intel.com>
Tested-by: Andrew Bowers <andrewx.bowers@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@verizon.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
---
drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_common.c | 4 ++--
drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_x550.c | 2 ++
2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_common.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_common.c
@@ -3781,10 +3781,10 @@ s32 ixgbe_set_fw_drv_ver_generic(struct
fw_cmd.ver_build = build;
fw_cmd.ver_sub = sub;
fw_cmd.hdr.checksum = 0;
- fw_cmd.hdr.checksum = ixgbe_calculate_checksum((u8 *)&fw_cmd,
- (FW_CEM_HDR_LEN + fw_cmd.hdr.buf_len));
fw_cmd.pad = 0;
fw_cmd.pad2 = 0;
+ fw_cmd.hdr.checksum = ixgbe_calculate_checksum((u8 *)&fw_cmd,
+ (FW_CEM_HDR_LEN + fw_cmd.hdr.buf_len));

for (i = 0; i <= FW_CEM_MAX_RETRIES; i++) {
ret_val = ixgbe_host_interface_command(hw, &fw_cmd,
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_x550.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_x550.c
@@ -900,6 +900,8 @@ static s32 ixgbe_read_ee_hostif_buffer_X
/* convert offset from words to bytes */
buffer.address = cpu_to_be32((offset + current_word) * 2);
buffer.length = cpu_to_be16(words_to_read * 2);
+ buffer.pad2 = 0;
+ buffer.pad3 = 0;

status = ixgbe_hic_unlocked(hw, (u32 *)&buffer, sizeof(buffer),
IXGBE_HI_COMMAND_TIMEOUT);