Re: [PATCH] Input: evdev - fix variable initialisation

From: Dima Zavin
Date: Tue Jan 31 2012 - 16:40:43 EST


ugh, thanks for fixing this.

On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 1:24 PM, Heiko Stübner <heiko@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Commit 509f87c5f564 (evdev - do not block waiting for an event if fd
> is nonblock) created a code path were it was possible to use retval
> uninitialized.
>
> This could lead to the xorg evdev input driver getting corrupt data
> and refusing to work with log messages like
>        AUO-Pixcir touchscreen: Read error: Success
>        sg060_keys: Read error: Success
>        AUO-Pixcir touchscreen: Read error: Success
>        sg060_keys: Read error: Success
> (for drivers auo-pixcir-ts and gpio-keys).
>
> Signed-off-by: Heiko Stuebner <heiko@xxxxxxxxx>

Acked-by: Dima Zavin <dima@xxxxxxxxxxx>

> ---
> This is obviously meant as a fix for 3.3
>
>  drivers/input/evdev.c |    2 +-
>  1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/input/evdev.c b/drivers/input/evdev.c
> index 76457d5..afc166f 100644
> --- a/drivers/input/evdev.c
> +++ b/drivers/input/evdev.c
> @@ -386,7 +386,7 @@ static ssize_t evdev_read(struct file *file, char __user *buffer,
>        struct evdev_client *client = file->private_data;
>        struct evdev *evdev = client->evdev;
>        struct input_event event;
> -       int retval;
> +       int retval = 0;
>
>        if (count < input_event_size())
>                return -EINVAL;
> --
> 1.7.2.3
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