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net: usb: sr9800: fix uninitialized local variable

Message ID 20191015202020.29114-1-vvidic@valentin-vidic.from.hr (mailing list archive)
State Mainlined
Commit 77b6d09f4ae66d42cd63b121af67780ae3d1a5e9
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Series net: usb: sr9800: fix uninitialized local variable | expand

Commit Message

Valentin Vidić Oct. 15, 2019, 8:20 p.m. UTC
Make sure res does not contain random value if the call to
sr_read_cmd fails for some reason.

Reported-by: syzbot+f1842130bbcfb335bac1@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Signed-off-by: Valentin Vidic <vvidic@valentin-vidic.from.hr>
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 drivers/net/usb/sr9800.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

Comments

David Miller Oct. 16, 2019, 4:02 a.m. UTC | #1
From: Valentin Vidic <vvidic@valentin-vidic.from.hr>
Date: Tue, 15 Oct 2019 22:20:20 +0200

> Make sure res does not contain random value if the call to
> sr_read_cmd fails for some reason.
> 
> Reported-by: syzbot+f1842130bbcfb335bac1@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
> Signed-off-by: Valentin Vidic <vvidic@valentin-vidic.from.hr>

Applied.

But often in situation like this a failed read can more aptly be indicated by
an all-1's value.
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Patch

diff --git a/drivers/net/usb/sr9800.c b/drivers/net/usb/sr9800.c
index c5d4a0060124..681e0def6356 100644
--- a/drivers/net/usb/sr9800.c
+++ b/drivers/net/usb/sr9800.c
@@ -335,7 +335,7 @@  static void sr_set_multicast(struct net_device *net)
 static int sr_mdio_read(struct net_device *net, int phy_id, int loc)
 {
 	struct usbnet *dev = netdev_priv(net);
-	__le16 res;
+	__le16 res = 0;
 
 	mutex_lock(&dev->phy_mutex);
 	sr_set_sw_mii(dev);