Re: [PATCH] crypto: x86/sha1: fix coverity CID 1195603

From: Pavel Machek
Date: Tue May 06 2014 - 04:29:07 EST


On Wed 2014-04-30 15:17:54, Milos Vyletel wrote:
> Coverity detected possible use of uninitialized pointer when printing info
> message during module load. While this is higly unlikely to cause any troubles
> simple change in sha1_ssse3_mod_init to make it look like sha256/512 init
> function will fix this.
>
> 260
> 6. Condition sha1_transform_asm, taking true branch
> 261 if (sha1_transform_asm) {
>
> CID 1195603 (#1 of 1): Uninitialized pointer read (UNINIT)
> 7. uninit_use_in_call: Using uninitialized value algo_name when calling printk.
> 262 pr_info("Using %s optimized SHA-1 implementation\n", algo_name);
> 263 return crypto_register_shash(&alg);
> 264 }
>
> Reported-by: <scan-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Milos Vyletel <milos.vyletel@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> arch/x86/crypto/sha1_ssse3_glue.c | 22 ++++++++++++----------
> 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/x86/crypto/sha1_ssse3_glue.c b/arch/x86/crypto/sha1_ssse3_glue.c
> index 74d16ef..5352196 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/crypto/sha1_ssse3_glue.c
> +++ b/arch/x86/crypto/sha1_ssse3_glue.c
> @@ -235,31 +235,33 @@ static bool __init avx2_usable(void)
>
> static int __init sha1_ssse3_mod_init(void)
> {
> - char *algo_name;
> -

Would simple "algo_name = NULL" be enough to fix this?

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