Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] media: sq905.c: fix uninitialized variable | From | Pavel Skripkin <> | Date | Fri, 26 Mar 2021 10:24:29 +0300 |
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Hi!
On Fri, 2021-03-26 at 08:14 +0100, 'Dmitry Vyukov' via syzkaller wrote: > On Fri, Mar 26, 2021 at 8:11 AM Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> > wrote: > > > > On Thu, Mar 25, 2021 at 11:22:02PM +0200, Alaa Emad wrote: > > > Reported-by: syzbot+a4e309017a5f3a24c7b3@syzkaller.appspotmail.com > > > Signed-off-by: Alaa Emad <alaaemadhossney.ae@gmail.com> > > > --- > > > > I know I do not take patches with no changelog text, but other > > maintainers might be more leniant :( > > I wonder if it's the right fix or not. > Initializing variables will, of course, silence the warning, but it's > not necessarily the right fix. I suspect there is something wrong in > how ret/act_len are user/checked. >
There is a problem in usb_bulk_msg() call. It could return before act_len initialization, so i think, act_len should be intialized with smth wrong like 0 or -1. BTW, I already send patch for that, but it was marked as obsoleted.
-- With regards,
Pavel Skripkin
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