From: Kalle Valo <kvalo@kernel.org>
To: Arend Van Spriel <arend.vanspriel@broadcom.com>
Cc: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@linaro.org>,
Su Hui <suhui@nfschina.com>, <johannes.berg@intel.com>,
<kees@kernel.org>, <a@bayrepo.ru>, <marcan@marcan.st>,
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<petr.tesarik.ext@huawei.com>, <duoming@zju.edu.cn>,
<colin.i.king@gmail.com>, <frankyl@broadcom.com>,
<meuleman@broadcom.com>, <phaber@broadcom.com>,
<linville@tuxdriver.com>, <linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org>,
<brcm80211@lists.linux.dev>,
<brcm80211-dev-list.pdl@broadcom.com>,
<linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH wireless 1/9] wifi: cfg80211: avoid garbage value of 'io_type' in brcmf_cfg80211_attach()
Date: Tue, 02 Jul 2024 18:29:20 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <878qyjg6cv.fsf@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <19073fcc9e8.279b.9b12b7fc0a3841636cfb5e919b41b954@broadcom.com> (Arend Van Spriel's message of "Tue, 02 Jul 2024 17:07:45 +0200")
Arend Van Spriel <arend.vanspriel@broadcom.com> writes:
> On July 2, 2024 3:57:27 PM Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@linaro.org> wrote:
>
>> On Tue, Jul 02, 2024 at 08:24:44PM +0800, Su Hui wrote:
>>> brcmf_fil_cmd_int_get() reads the value of 'io_type' and passes it to
>>> brcmf_fil_cmd_data_get(). Initialize 'io_type' to avoid garbage value.
>>
>> Since you're going to be resending anyway, please delete the space char
>> from the start of the line.
>>
>> It's weird that brcmf_fil_cmd_data_get() uses the uninitialized data.
>> It looks like it just goes to great lengths to preserve the original
>> data in io_type... So it likely is harmless enough but still a strange
>> and complicated way write a no-op.
>
> Not sure if it helps, but I tried to explain the reason in response to
> patch 0 (cover letter).
Would it make more sense to have just one patch? It's the same issue
anyway.
--
https://patchwork.kernel.org/project/linux-wireless/list/
https://wireless.wiki.kernel.org/en/developers/documentation/submittingpatches
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2024-07-02 15:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2024-07-02 12:24 [PATCH wireless 0/9] wifi: cfg80211: avoid some garbage values Su Hui
2024-07-02 12:24 ` [PATCH wireless 1/9] wifi: cfg80211: avoid garbage value of 'io_type' in brcmf_cfg80211_attach() Su Hui
2024-07-02 13:57 ` Dan Carpenter
2024-07-02 15:07 ` Arend Van Spriel
2024-07-02 15:29 ` Kalle Valo [this message]
2024-07-02 15:37 ` Dan Carpenter
2024-07-02 16:26 ` Arend Van Spriel
2024-07-02 16:37 ` Dan Carpenter
2024-07-02 15:39 ` Arend Van Spriel
2024-07-03 1:41 ` Su Hui
2024-07-03 4:42 ` Arend Van Spriel
2024-07-03 7:38 ` Su Hui
2024-07-03 13:23 ` Dan Carpenter
2024-07-02 12:24 ` [PATCH wireless 2/9] wifi: brcmfmac: avoid garbage value of 'status' in brcmf_c_download_blob() Su Hui
2024-07-02 12:24 ` [PATCH wireless 3/9] wifi: cfg80211: avoid garbage value of 'noise' in brcmf_cfg80211_dump_survey() Su Hui
2024-07-02 12:24 ` [PATCH wireless 4/9] wifi: cfg80211: avoid garbage value of 'chanspec' in brcmf_cfg80211_get_channel() Su Hui
2024-07-02 12:24 ` [PATCH wireless 5/9] wifi: cfg80211: avoid garbage value of 'freq' in brcmf_cfg80211_mgmt_tx() Su Hui
2024-07-02 12:24 ` [PATCH wireless 6/9] wifi: cfg80211: avoid garbage value of 'wsec' in brcmf_cfg80211_reconfigure_wep() Su Hui
2024-07-02 12:24 ` [PATCH wireless 7/9] wifi: cfg80211: avoid garbage value of 'wsec' in brcmf_cfg80211_add_key() Su Hui
2024-07-02 12:24 ` [PATCH wireless 8/9] wifi: cfg80211: avoid garbage value of 'val' in brcmf_set_key_mgmt() Su Hui
2024-07-02 12:24 ` [PATCH wireless 9/9] wifi: cfg80211: avoid garbage value of 'wsec' in brcmf_cfg80211_{get,config_default}_key() Su Hui
2024-07-02 12:49 ` [PATCH wireless 0/9] wifi: cfg80211: avoid some garbage values Johannes Berg
2024-07-02 14:41 ` Arend Van Spriel
2024-07-02 14:02 ` Jonas Gorski
2024-07-02 15:01 ` Arend Van Spriel
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