From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Kalle Valo Subject: Re: [1/2] b43: fix unitialized reads of ret by initializing the array to zero Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2017 12:41:24 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: <20170920124124.7B32460725@smtp.codeaurora.org> References: <20170905181550.23839-1-colin.king@canonical.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, b43-dev@lists.infradead.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org To: Colin Ian King Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20170905181550.23839-1-colin.king@canonical.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org Colin Ian King wrote: > From: Colin Ian King > > The u8 char array ret is not being initialized and elements outside > the range start to end contain just garbage values from the stack. > This results in a later scan of the array to read potentially > uninitialized values. Fix this by initializing the array to zero. > This seems to have been an issue since the very first commit. > > Detected by CoverityScan CID#139652 ("Uninitialized scalar variable") > > Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King > Reviewed-by: Michael Buesch 2 patches applied to wireless-drivers-next.git, thanks. e31fbe1034d9 b43: fix unitialized reads of ret by initializing the array to zero e3ae1c772046 b43legacy: fix unitialized reads of ret by initializing the array to zero -- https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/9939435/ https://wireless.wiki.kernel.org/en/developers/documentation/submittingpatches