Re: [PATCH] PCI: Improve __pci_read_base robustness

From: Bjorn Helgaas
Date: Tue Apr 18 2017 - 15:12:30 EST


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@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

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