Re: [PATCH][V2] UBI: block: fix dereference on uninitialized dev

From: Artem Bityutskiy
Date: Mon Sep 08 2014 - 06:26:57 EST


On Thu, 2014-08-21 at 16:12 -0300, Ezequiel Garcia wrote:
> On 20 Aug 10:19 AM, Colin King wrote:
> > From: Colin Ian King <colin.king@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > commit 4df38926f337 ("UBI: block: Avoid disk size integer overflow")
> > introduced a dereference on dev (which is not initialized at that
> > point) when printing a warning message. Re-order disk_capacity check
> > after the dev is found.
> >
> > Found by cppcheck:
> > [drivers/mtd/ubi/block.c:509]: (error) Uninitialized variable: dev
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Acked-by: Ezequiel Garcia <ezequiel.garcia@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Do we want to have this patch in @stable?

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Best Regards,
Artem Bityutskiy

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