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From: Pavel Skripkin <paskripkin@gmail.com>
To: Wang Cheng <wanngchenng@gmail.com>, dan.carpenter@oracle.com
Cc: linux-staging@lists.linux.dev, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] staging: rtl8712: fix uninit-value in usb_read8() and friends
Date: Fri, 6 May 2022 10:23:39 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <7dad295f-2ac4-d6ff-8d8a-17db8ef18c12@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <b9b7a6ee02c02aa28054f5cf16129977775f3cd9.1651760402.git.wanngchenng@gmail.com>

Hi Wang,

On 5/6/22 06:15, Wang Cheng wrote:
> When r8712_usbctrl_vendorreq() returns negative, 'data' in
> usb_read{8,16,32} will not be initialized.

[code snip]

> +	status = r8712_usbctrl_vendorreq(intfpriv, request, wvalue, index,
> +					 &data, len, requesttype);
> +	if (status < 0)
> +		return 0;
>   	return le32_to_cpu(data);
>   }
>   

Why do you believe that 0 is not valid register value? And if it's 
possible then how you can identify an error?




With regards,
Pavel Skripkin

  parent reply	other threads:[~2022-05-06  7:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-05-06  3:13 [PATCH v2 0/2] staging: rtl8712: fix uninit-value 'data' and 'mac' Wang Cheng
2022-05-06  3:15 ` [PATCH v2 1/2] staging: rtl8712: fix uninit-value in usb_read8() and friends Wang Cheng
2022-05-06  7:10   ` Dan Carpenter
2022-05-06 11:22     ` Wang Cheng
2022-05-06  7:23   ` Pavel Skripkin [this message]
2022-05-06  7:57     ` Dan Carpenter
2022-05-06  3:16 ` [PATCH v2 2/2] staging: rtl8712: fix uninit-value in r871xu_drv_init() Wang Cheng
2022-05-06  7:41   ` Pavel Skripkin
2022-05-06 11:33     ` Wang Cheng
2022-05-06 11:56       ` Wang Cheng
2022-05-06 12:02       ` Pavel Skripkin
2022-05-09  4:03         ` Wang Cheng

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