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SubjectRe: [alsa-devel] [PATCH] ASoC: Intel: mrfld: fix uninitialized variable access
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On 11/3/18 4:21 PM, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> Randconfig testing revealed a very old bug, with gcc-8:
>
> sound/soc/intel/atom/sst/sst_loader.c: In function 'sst_load_fw':
> sound/soc/intel/atom/sst/sst_loader.c:357:5: error: 'fw' may be used uninitialized in this function [-Werror=maybe-uninitialized]
> if (fw == NULL) {
> ^
> sound/soc/intel/atom/sst/sst_loader.c:354:25: note: 'fw' was declared here
> const struct firmware *fw;
>
> We must check the return code of request_firmware() before we look at the
> pointer result that may be uninitialized when the function fails.

yes indeed, good catch.

Acked-by: Pierre-Louis Bossart <pierre-louis.bossart@linux.intel.com>

>
> Fixes: 9012c9544eea ("ASoC: Intel: mrfld - Add DSP load and management")
> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
> ---
> sound/soc/intel/atom/sst/sst_loader.c | 8 ++++----
> 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/sound/soc/intel/atom/sst/sst_loader.c b/sound/soc/intel/atom/sst/sst_loader.c
> index 27413ebae956..b8c456753f01 100644
> --- a/sound/soc/intel/atom/sst/sst_loader.c
> +++ b/sound/soc/intel/atom/sst/sst_loader.c
> @@ -354,14 +354,14 @@ static int sst_request_fw(struct intel_sst_drv *sst)
> const struct firmware *fw;
>
> retval = request_firmware(&fw, sst->firmware_name, sst->dev);
> - if (fw == NULL) {
> - dev_err(sst->dev, "fw is returning as null\n");
> - return -EINVAL;
> - }
> if (retval) {
> dev_err(sst->dev, "request fw failed %d\n", retval);
> return retval;
> }
> + if (fw == NULL) {
> + dev_err(sst->dev, "fw is returning as null\n");
> + return -EINVAL;
> + }
> mutex_lock(&sst->sst_lock);
> retval = sst_cache_and_parse_fw(sst, fw);
> mutex_unlock(&sst->sst_lock);

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