Re: [PATCH 1/2] crypto: stm32 - Fix uninitialized data usage

From: Herbert Xu
Date: Sat Oct 07 2017 - 00:20:37 EST


On Tue, Sep 12, 2017 at 11:35:38AM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> The error handling in stm32_hash_irq_thread passes
> uninitialized data into stm32_hash_finish_req, as gcc
> points out:
>
> drivers/crypto/stm32/stm32-hash.c: In function 'stm32_hash_irq_thread':
> drivers/crypto/stm32/stm32-hash.c:1088:2: error: 'err' may be used uninitialized in this function [-Werror=maybe-uninitialized]
>
> I could not tell what data should be passed there instead,
> so this changes the code to always pass zero, making it
> well-defined, though possibly still wrong. Please check.
>
> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>

This is already fixed in cryptodev.
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