From: LABBE Corentin <clabbe@baylibre.com>
To: coverity-bot <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: Neil Armstrong <narmstrong@baylibre.com>,
Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>,
"Gustavo A. R. Silva" <gustavo@embeddedor.com>,
linux-next@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Coverity: meson_allocate_chanlist(): Uninitialized variables
Date: Tue, 5 Nov 2019 20:16:44 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20191105191644.GD16603@Red> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201911040939.3AB1A8CC2B@keescook>
On Mon, Nov 04, 2019 at 09:39:49AM -0800, coverity-bot wrote:
> Hello!
>
> This is an experimental automated report about issues detected by Coverity
> from a scan of next-20191031 as part of the linux-next weekly scan project:
> https://scan.coverity.com/projects/linux-next-weekly-scan
>
> You're getting this email because you were associated with the identified
> lines of code (noted below) that were touched by recent commits:
>
> 48fe583fe541 ("crypto: amlogic - Add crypto accelerator for amlogic GXL")
>
> Coverity reported the following:
>
> *** CID 1487398: Uninitialized variables (UNINIT)
> /drivers/crypto/amlogic/amlogic-gxl-core.c: 184 in meson_allocate_chanlist()
> 178 goto error_engine;
> 179 }
> 180 }
> 181 return 0;
> 182 error_engine:
> 183 meson_free_chanlist(mc, i);
> vvv CID 1487398: Uninitialized variables (UNINIT)
> vvv Using uninitialized value "err".
> 184 return err;
> 185 }
> 186
> 187 static int meson_register_algs(struct meson_dev *mc)
> 188 {
> 189 int err, i;
>
> If this is a false positive, please let us know so we can mark it as
> such, or teach the Coverity rules to be smarter. If not, please make
> sure fixes get into linux-next. :) For patches fixing this, please
> include these lines (but double-check the "Fixes" first):
>
> Reported-by: coverity-bot <keescook+coverity-bot@chromium.org>
> Addresses-Coverity-ID: 1487398 ("Uninitialized variables")
> Fixes: 48fe583fe541 ("crypto: amlogic - Add crypto accelerator for amlogic GXL")
>
>
> Thanks for your attention!
Hello
A patch was already posted for this issue ("[PATCH][next] crypto: amlogic: ensure error variable err is set before returning it")
Regards
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-11-05 19:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-11-04 17:39 Coverity: meson_allocate_chanlist(): Uninitialized variables coverity-bot
2019-11-05 19:16 ` LABBE Corentin [this message]
2019-11-05 21:11 ` Kees Cook
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