| Message ID | 20210203133834.22388-1-colin.king@canonical.com (mailing list archive) |
|---|---|
| State | Not Applicable |
| Delegated to: | Netdev Maintainers |
| Headers | show |
| Series | [next] staging: qlge: fix read of an uninitialized pointer | expand |
| Context | Check | Description |
|---|---|---|
| netdev/tree_selection | success | Not a local patch |
On Wed, Feb 03, 2021 at 01:38:34PM +0000, Colin King wrote: >From: Colin Ian King <colin.king@canonical.com> > >Currently the pointer 'reporter' is not being initialized and is >being read in a netdev_warn message. The pointer is not used >and is redundant, fix this by removing it and replacing the reference >to it with priv->reporter instead. > >Addresses-Coverity: ("Uninitialized pointer read") >Fixes: 1053c27804df ("staging: qlge: coredump via devlink health reporter") >Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king@canonical.com> >--- > drivers/staging/qlge/qlge_devlink.c | 3 +-- > 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-) > >diff --git a/drivers/staging/qlge/qlge_devlink.c b/drivers/staging/qlge/qlge_devlink.c >index c6ef5163e241..86834d96cebf 100644 >--- a/drivers/staging/qlge/qlge_devlink.c >+++ b/drivers/staging/qlge/qlge_devlink.c >@@ -150,7 +150,6 @@ static const struct devlink_health_reporter_ops qlge_reporter_ops = { > > void qlge_health_create_reporters(struct qlge_adapter *priv) > { >- struct devlink_health_reporter *reporter; > struct devlink *devlink; > > devlink = priv_to_devlink(priv); >@@ -160,5 +159,5 @@ void qlge_health_create_reporters(struct qlge_adapter *priv) > if (IS_ERR(priv->reporter)) > netdev_warn(priv->ndev, > "Failed to create reporter, err = %ld\n", >- PTR_ERR(reporter)); >+ PTR_ERR(priv->reporter)); > } >-- >2.29.2 > Thanks for fixing this issue. Reviewed-by: Coiby Xu <coiby.xu@gmail.com> -- Best regards, Coiby
diff --git a/drivers/staging/qlge/qlge_devlink.c b/drivers/staging/qlge/qlge_devlink.c index c6ef5163e241..86834d96cebf 100644 --- a/drivers/staging/qlge/qlge_devlink.c +++ b/drivers/staging/qlge/qlge_devlink.c @@ -150,7 +150,6 @@ static const struct devlink_health_reporter_ops qlge_reporter_ops = { void qlge_health_create_reporters(struct qlge_adapter *priv) { - struct devlink_health_reporter *reporter; struct devlink *devlink; devlink = priv_to_devlink(priv); @@ -160,5 +159,5 @@ void qlge_health_create_reporters(struct qlge_adapter *priv) if (IS_ERR(priv->reporter)) netdev_warn(priv->ndev, "Failed to create reporter, err = %ld\n", - PTR_ERR(reporter)); + PTR_ERR(priv->reporter)); }