Re: [PATCH] HID: haptic: don't write an uninitialized value to unhandled usages

Jiri Kosina <[email protected]>
Newsgroups org.kernel.vger.linux-input,org.kernel.vger.linux-kernel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Sat, 8 Aug 2026, Karl Mehltretter wrote:

> fill_effect_buf() initializes value only for the four haptic usages
> handled by its switch, but writes it to field->value[] for every usage.
> An unhandled usage can therefore receive either an uninitialized value
> or one left over from the previous usage. hid_output_report() then
> serializes that value into the effect's report buffer.
> 
> Skip unhandled usages instead. This also matches switch_mode(), which
> only updates fields it recognizes.
> 
> Found with Clang's -Wconditional-uninitialized.
> 
> Fixes: 344ff3584957 ("HID: haptic: initialize haptic device")
> Assisted-by: Claude:claude-fable-5
> Signed-off-by: Karl Mehltretter <[email protected]>
> ---
>  drivers/hid/hid-haptic.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/hid/hid-haptic.c b/drivers/hid/hid-haptic.c
> index deadab28cdbef..66d90f0f78a3b 100644
> --- a/drivers/hid/hid-haptic.c
> +++ b/drivers/hid/hid-haptic.c
> @@ -187,7 +187,7 @@ static void fill_effect_buf(struct hid_haptic_device *haptic,
>  				value = waveform_ordinal;
>  				break;
>  			default:
> -				break;
> +				continue;
>  			}
>  

Applied, thanks.

-- 
Jiri Kosina
SUSE Labs
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