Subject: Re: [1/2] b43: fix unitialized reads of ret by initializing the array to zero

From: Kalle Valo <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2017 12:41:24 +0000 (UTC)

Colin Ian King <[email-masked]> wrote:

> From: Colin Ian King <[email-masked]>
> 
> 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-masked]>
> Reviewed-by: Michael Buesch <[email-masked]>

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

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