[1/2] b43: fix unitialized reads of ret by initializing the array to zero
Kalle Valo <[email protected]>
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Colin Ian King <[email protected]> wrote: > From: Colin Ian King <[email protected]> > > The u8 char array ret is not being initialized and elements outside > the range start to end contain just garbage values from the stack. > This results in a later scan of the array to read potentially > uninitialized values. Fix this by initializing the array to zero. > This seems to have been an issue since the very first commit. > > Detected by CoverityScan CID#139652 ("Uninitialized scalar variable") > > Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <[email protected]> > Reviewed-by: Michael Buesch <[email protected]> 2 patches applied to wireless-drivers-next.git, thanks. e31fbe1034d9 b43: fix unitialized reads of ret by initializing the array to zero e3ae1c772046 b43legacy: fix unitialized reads of ret by initializing the array to zero -- https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/9939435/ https://wireless.wiki.kernel.org/en/developers/documentation/submittingpatches