Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [alsa-devel] [PATCH] ASoC: Intel: mrfld: fix uninitialized variable access | From | Pierre-Louis Bossart <> | Date | Sun, 4 Nov 2018 09:10:13 -0600 |
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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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