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From: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>
To: caij2003@gmail.com
Cc: alsa-devel@alsa-project.org, broonie@kernel.org,
	lgirdwood@gmail.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	perex@perex.cz, tiwai@suse.com,
	clang-built-linux@googlegroups.com
Subject: RE: [PATCH] ASoC: soc-core: fix an uninitialized use
Date: Thu,  6 Feb 2020 15:28:40 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200206232840.227705-1-ndesaulniers@google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200206200345.175344-1-caij2003@gmail.com>

> Fixed the uninitialized use of a signed integer variable ret in
> soc_probe_component when all its definitions are not executed. This
> caused  -ftrivial-auto-var-init=pattern to initialize the variable to
> repeated 0xAA (i.e. a negative value) and triggered the following code
> unintentionally.

> Signed-off-by: Jian Cai <caij2003@gmail.com>

Hi Jian,
I don't quite follow; it looks like `ret` is assigned to multiple times in
`soc_probe_component`. Are one of the return values of one of the functions
that are called then assigned to `ret` undefined? What control flow path leaves
`ret` unitialized?

  reply	other threads:[~2020-02-06 23:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-02-06 20:03 [PATCH] ASoC: soc-core: fix an uninitialized use Jian Cai
2020-02-06 23:28 ` Nick Desaulniers [this message]
     [not found]   ` <CAOHxzjGiO54BwUDR4zz6MwvFT3-XXDx830cQcQAcVUPA1N_emA@mail.gmail.com>
2020-02-07  0:04     ` Nick Desaulniers

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