Re: [PATCH] drivers: staging: iio: adc: fix uninitialized use

From: Jonathan Cameron
Date: Mon Jul 04 2011 - 05:37:02 EST


On 07/04/11 10:10, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 04, 2011 at 10:01:11AM +0100, Jonathan Cameron wrote:
>> On 07/03/11 02:47, Chris Forbes wrote:
>>> Fixed an uninitialized variable access. In the first two error paths in
>>> max1363_probe(), 'st' is not yet initialized, but its 'reg' member is
>>> accessed anyway. This would most likely crash.
>> Good spot. Please tech TODO files for staging patches. In this case it would
>> have given you the mailing list, now cc'd.
>
> It would better to add an entry to MAINTAINERS so that
> ./scripts/get_maintainer.pl gave the right lists.
Perhaps, but Greg KH is anti, so it isn't going to happen.

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