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Re: [PATCH] PCI: Improve __pci_read_base robustness

From Bjorn Helgaas <helgaas@kernel.org>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: [PATCH] PCI: Improve __pci_read_base robustness
Date 2017-04-18 21:20 +0200
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On Mon, Apr 10, 2017 at 07:46:54PM +0200, Marc Gonzalez wrote:
> Local variables 'l' and 'sz' are uninitialized. Normally, they would
> be initialized by pci_read_config_dword() but when an error occurs,
> some drivers immediately return an error code, which leaves the
> argument uninitialized.
> 
> Provide a safe initial value to make the code more robust.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Marc Gonzalez <marc_gonzalez@sigmadesigns.com>

Applied to pci/enumeration for v4.12, thanks!

> ---
>  drivers/pci/probe.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/pci/probe.c b/drivers/pci/probe.c
> index d266d800f246..6fb929bd7040 100644
> --- a/drivers/pci/probe.c
> +++ b/drivers/pci/probe.c
> @@ -175,7 +175,7 @@ static inline unsigned long decode_bar(struct pci_dev *dev, u32 bar)
>  int __pci_read_base(struct pci_dev *dev, enum pci_bar_type type,
>  		    struct resource *res, unsigned int pos)
>  {
> -	u32 l, sz, mask;
> +	u32 l = 0, sz = 0, mask;
>  	u64 l64, sz64, mask64;
>  	u16 orig_cmd;
>  	struct pci_bus_region region, inverted_region;
> -- 
> 2.11.0

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[PATCH] PCI: Improve __pci_read_base robustness Marc Gonzalez <marc_gonzalez@sigmadesigns.com> - 2017-04-10 19:50 +0200
  Re: [PATCH] PCI: Improve __pci_read_base robustness Bjorn Helgaas <helgaas@kernel.org> - 2017-04-18 21:20 +0200

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