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From: Jonathan Cameron <jic23@cam.ac.uk>
To: Dan Carpenter <error27@gmail.com>
Cc: Chris Forbes <chrisf@ijw.co.nz>,
	devel@driverdev.osuosl.org,
	"linux-iio@vger.kernel.org" <linux-iio@vger.kernel.org>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] drivers: staging: iio: adc: fix uninitialized use
Date: Mon, 04 Jul 2011 10:45:01 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4E118B9D.2070104@cam.ac.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110704091016.GM2544@shale.localdomain>

On 07/04/11 10:10, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 04, 2011 at 10:01:11AM +0100, Jonathan Cameron wrote:
>> On 07/03/11 02:47, Chris Forbes wrote:
>>> Fixed an uninitialized variable access. In the first two error paths in
>>> max1363_probe(), 'st' is not yet initialized, but its 'reg' member is
>>> accessed anyway. This would most likely crash.
>> Good spot. Please tech TODO files for staging patches. In this case it would
>> have given you the mailing list, now cc'd.
> 
> It would better to add an entry to MAINTAINERS so that
> ./scripts/get_maintainer.pl gave the right lists.
Perhaps, but Greg KH is anti, so it isn't going to happen.


  reply	other threads:[~2011-07-04  9:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-07-03  1:47 [PATCH] drivers: staging: iio: adc: fix uninitialized use Chris Forbes
2011-07-04  9:01 ` Jonathan Cameron
2011-07-04  9:10   ` Dan Carpenter
2011-07-04  9:45     ` Jonathan Cameron [this message]
2011-07-04 15:34       ` Greg KH
2011-07-05 16:42         ` [PATCH 00/14] MAINTAINERS: Add staging Joe Perches
2011-07-05 16:42           ` [PATCH 01/14] MAINTAINERS: Add STAGING - ASUS OLED Joe Perches
2011-07-05 16:42           ` [PATCH 02/14] MAINTAINERS: Add STAGING - COMEDI Joe Perches
2011-07-05 16:42           ` [PATCH 03/14] MAINTAINERS: Add STAGING - CRYSTAL HD VIDEO DECODER Joe Perches
2011-07-05 16:42           ` [PATCH 04/14] MAINTAINERS: Add STAGING - ECHO CANCELLER Joe Perches
2011-07-05 16:42           ` [PATCH 05/14] MAINTAINERS: Add STAGING - FRONTIER TRANZPORT AND ALPHATRACK Joe Perches
2011-07-05 16:42           ` [PATCH 06/14] MAINTAINERS: Add STAGING - HYPER-V (MICROSOFT) Joe Perches
2011-07-05 16:42           ` [PATCH 07/14] MAINTAINERS: Add STAGING - INDUSTRIAL IO Joe Perches
2011-07-05 16:42           ` [PATCH 08/14] MAINTAINERS: Add STAGING - PARALLEL LCD/KEYPAD PANEL DRIVER Joe Perches
2011-07-05 16:42           ` [PATCH 09/14] MAINTAINERS: Add STAGING - SILICON MOTION SM7XX FRAME BUFFER DRIVER Joe Perches
2011-07-05 16:42           ` [PATCH 10/14] MAINTAINERS: Add STAGING - VIA VT665X DRIVERS Joe Perches
2011-07-05 16:42           ` [PATCH 11/14] MAINTAINERS: Add STAGING - WINBOND IS89C35 WLAN USB DRIVER Joe Perches
2011-07-05 16:42           ` [PATCH 12/14] MAINTAINERS: Add STAGING - AGERE HERMES II and II.5 WIRELESS DRIVERS Joe Perches
2011-07-05 16:42           ` [PATCH 13/14] MAINTAINERS: Add STAGING - XGI Z7,Z9,Z11 PCI DISPLAY DRIVER Joe Perches
2011-07-05 16:42           ` [PATCH 14/14] MAINTAINERS: Remove se401 entry Joe Perches
2011-07-05 16:54           ` [PATCH 00/14] MAINTAINERS: Add staging Greg KH
2011-07-06  3:36 ` [PATCH] drivers: staging: iio: adc: fix uninitialized use Greg KH
2011-07-06  3:57   ` Chris Forbes
2011-07-06  4:01     ` Greg KH

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