From: Simon Horman <horms@kernel.org>
To: Karl Mehltretter <kmehltretter@gmail.com>
Cc: Sunil Goutham <sgoutham@marvell.com>,
Ratheesh Kannoth <rkannoth@marvell.com>,
Geetha sowjanya <gakula@marvell.com>,
Subbaraya Sundeep <sbhatta@marvell.com>,
Andrew Lunn <andrew+netdev@lunn.ch>,
"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>,
Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>, Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>,
netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net] octeontx2-af: initialize lmac_bmap in rvu_mcs_set_lmac_bmap()
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 2026 10:10:51 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260814091051.GK265046@horms.kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260812060730.6181-1-kmehltretter@gmail.com>
On Wed, Aug 12, 2026 at 08:07:30AM +0200, Karl Mehltretter wrote:
> rvu_mcs_set_lmac_bmap() declares lmac_bmap without initializing it and
> only sets bits for valid lmacs with set_bit(), which ORs into the word
> without clearing it first. Bits for invalid or skipped ports keep
> whatever was on the stack, and the garbage is stored into
> mcs->hw->lmac_bmap.
>
> Initialize lmac_bmap to 0 so only valid lmacs are marked.
>
> Found with Clang's -Wconditional-uninitialized.
>
> Fixes: ca7f49ff8846 ("octeontx2-af: cn10k: Introduce driver for macsec block.")
> Assisted-by: Claude:claude-fable-5
> Signed-off-by: Karl Mehltretter <kmehltretter@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Simon Horman <horms@kernel.org>
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2026-08-12 6:07 [PATCH net] octeontx2-af: initialize lmac_bmap in rvu_mcs_set_lmac_bmap() Karl Mehltretter
2026-08-12 6:32 ` Ratheesh Kannoth
2026-08-14 9:10 ` Simon Horman [this message]
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