* [PATCH] mt76: avoid uninitialized skb data
@ 2025-08-07 20:52 Arnd Bergmann
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From: Arnd Bergmann @ 2025-08-07 20:52 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Felix Fietkau, Lorenzo Bianconi, Ryder Lee, Matthias Brugger,
AngeloGioacchino Del Regno, Nathan Chancellor
Cc: Arnd Bergmann, Shayne Chen, Sean Wang, Nick Desaulniers,
Bill Wendling, Justin Stitt, Peter Chiu, Bo Jiao, Howard Hsu,
linux-wireless, linux-kernel, linux-arm-kernel, linux-mediatek,
llvm
From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Two functions in the mt7996 driver cause a clang-21 build warning because
the pass uninitialized data into skb_put_data:
drivers/net/wireless/mediatek/mt76/mt7996/mcu.c:1894:21: error: variable 'hdr' is uninitialized when passed as a const pointer argument here [-Werror,-Wuninitialized-const-pointer]
1894 | skb_put_data(skb, &hdr, sizeof(hdr));
| ^~~
drivers/net/wireless/mediatek/mt76/mt7996/mcu.c:3386:21: error: variable 'hdr' is uninitialized when passed as a const pointer argument here [-Werror,-Wuninitialized-const-pointer]
3386 | skb_put_data(skb, &hdr, sizeof(hdr));
| ^~~
Remove the otherwise unused variables and instead use skb_put_zero() instead
to fill the header with zeroes.
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
---
drivers/net/wireless/mediatek/mt76/mt7996/mcu.c | 12 ++++--------
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/mediatek/mt76/mt7996/mcu.c b/drivers/net/wireless/mediatek/mt76/mt7996/mcu.c
index 3593fd40c51b..6a00df3c5343 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/mediatek/mt76/mt7996/mcu.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/mediatek/mt76/mt7996/mcu.c
@@ -1880,18 +1880,17 @@ int mt7996_mcu_set_fixed_rate_ctrl(struct mt7996_dev *dev,
void *data, u16 version)
{
struct ra_fixed_rate *req;
- struct uni_header hdr;
struct sk_buff *skb;
struct tlv *tlv;
int len;
- len = sizeof(hdr) + sizeof(*req);
+ len = sizeof(struct uni_header) + sizeof(*req);
skb = mt76_mcu_msg_alloc(&dev->mt76, NULL, len);
if (!skb)
return -ENOMEM;
- skb_put_data(skb, &hdr, sizeof(hdr));
+ skb_put_zero(skb, sizeof(struct uni_header));
tlv = mt7996_mcu_add_uni_tlv(skb, UNI_RA_FIXED_RATE, sizeof(*req));
req = (struct ra_fixed_rate *)tlv;
@@ -3370,20 +3369,17 @@ void mt7996_mcu_exit(struct mt7996_dev *dev)
int mt7996_mcu_set_hdr_trans(struct mt7996_dev *dev, bool hdr_trans)
{
- struct {
- u8 __rsv[4];
- } __packed hdr;
struct hdr_trans_blacklist *req_blacklist;
struct hdr_trans_en *req_en;
struct sk_buff *skb;
struct tlv *tlv;
- int len = MT7996_HDR_TRANS_MAX_SIZE + sizeof(hdr);
+ int len = MT7996_HDR_TRANS_MAX_SIZE + 4;
skb = mt76_mcu_msg_alloc(&dev->mt76, NULL, len);
if (!skb)
return -ENOMEM;
- skb_put_data(skb, &hdr, sizeof(hdr));
+ skb_put_zero(skb, 4);
tlv = mt7996_mcu_add_uni_tlv(skb, UNI_HDR_TRANS_EN, sizeof(*req_en));
req_en = (struct hdr_trans_en *)tlv;
--
2.39.5
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