Patch "ALSA: pcm: potential uninitialized return values" has been added to the 3.18-stable tree

Patch "ALSA: pcm: potential uninitialized return values" has been added to the 3.18-stable tree

[gregkh]

This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

    ALSA: pcm: potential uninitialized return values

to the 3.18-stable tree which can be found at:
    http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
     alsa-pcm-potential-uninitialized-return-values.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.18 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@vger.kernel.org> know about it.


>From 5607dddbfca774fb38bffadcb077fe03aa4ac5c6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2018 16:07:52 +0300
Subject: ALSA: pcm: potential uninitialized return values

From: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>

commit 5607dddbfca774fb38bffadcb077fe03aa4ac5c6 upstream.

Smatch complains that "tmp" can be uninitialized if we do a zero size
write.

Fixes: 02a5d6925cd3 ("ALSA: pcm: Avoid potential races between OSS ioctls and read/write")
Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

---
 sound/core/oss/pcm_oss.c |    4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

--- a/sound/core/oss/pcm_oss.c
+++ b/sound/core/oss/pcm_oss.c
@@ -1362,7 +1362,7 @@ static ssize_t snd_pcm_oss_write2(struct
 static ssize_t snd_pcm_oss_write1(struct snd_pcm_substream *substream, const char __user *buf, size_t bytes)
 {
 	size_t xfer = 0;
-	ssize_t tmp;
+	ssize_t tmp = 0;
 	struct snd_pcm_runtime *runtime = substream->runtime;
 
 	if (atomic_read(&substream->mmap_count))
@@ -1469,7 +1469,7 @@ static ssize_t snd_pcm_oss_read2(struct
 static ssize_t snd_pcm_oss_read1(struct snd_pcm_substream *substream, char __user *buf, size_t bytes)
 {
 	size_t xfer = 0;
-	ssize_t tmp;
+	ssize_t tmp = 0;
 	struct snd_pcm_runtime *runtime = substream->runtime;
 
 	if (atomic_read(&substream->mmap_count))


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from dan.carpenter@oracle.com are

queue-3.18/alsa-pcm-potential-uninitialized-return-values.patch
queue-3.18/staging-ncpfs-memory-corruption-in-ncp_read_kernel.patch