Re: [PATCH] cdrom: gdrom: initialize global variable at init time

[Peter Rosin]

Hi!

On 2021-05-06 16:00, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> As Peter points out, if we were to disconnect and then reconnect this
> driver from a device, the "global" state of the device would contain odd
> values and could cause problems.  Fix this up by just initializing the
> whole thing to 0 at probe() time.
> 
> Ideally this would be a per-device variable, but given the age and the
> total lack of users of it, that would require a lot of s/./->/g changes
> for really no good reason.
> 
> Reported-by: Peter Rosin <peda@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@xxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Looks good to me.

Reviewed-by: Peter Rosin <peda@xxxxxxxxxx>

Thanks,
Peter