[PATCH][next] ALSA: firewire-lib: Fix uninitialized variable err issue
Takashi Sakamoto
o-takashi at sakamocchi.jp
Sat May 22 00:21:46 CEST 2021
Hi,
On Thu, May 20, 2021 at 10:04:09PM +0900, Takashi Sakamoto wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Thu, May 20, 2021 at 02:26:24PM +0200, Takashi Iwai wrote:
> > On Thu, 20 May 2021 10:34:24 +0200,
> > Colin King wrote:
> > >
> > > From: Colin Ian King <colin.king at canonical.com>
> > >
> > > Currently in the case where the payload_length is less than the
> > > cip_header_size the error return variable err is not being set
> > > and function parse_ir_ctx_header can return an uninitialized
> > > error return value. Fix this by setting err to zero.
> > >
> > > Addresses-Coverity: ("Uninitialized scalar variable")
> > > Fixes: c09010eeb373 ("ALSA: firewire-lib: handle the case that empty isochronous packet payload for CIP")
> > > Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king at canonical.com>
> >
> > Just a bikeshed, IMO, it'd be more proper to initialize err at the
> > beginning than setting 0 at every branch, e.g.
> >
> > --- a/sound/firewire/amdtp-stream.c
> > +++ b/sound/firewire/amdtp-stream.c
> > @@ -652,7 +652,7 @@ static int parse_ir_ctx_header(struct amdtp_stream *s, unsigned int cycle,
> > unsigned int payload_length;
> > const __be32 *cip_header;
> > unsigned int cip_header_size;
> > - int err;
> > + int err = 0;
> >
> > payload_length = be32_to_cpu(ctx_header[0]) >> ISO_DATA_LENGTH_SHIFT;
> >
> > @@ -683,7 +683,6 @@ static int parse_ir_ctx_header(struct amdtp_stream *s, unsigned int cycle,
> > }
> > } else {
> > cip_header = NULL;
> > - err = 0;
> > *data_blocks = payload_length / sizeof(__be32) / s->data_block_quadlets;
> > *syt = 0;
>
> Thanks for the patches.
>
> The error check is just done for the case to process CIP header, thus we
> can put the auto variable into the branch.
>
> ======== 8< --------
> From 3fcca0062297e937c665f1c8e3a117e1187f4115 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Takashi Sakamoto <o-takashi at sakamocchi.jp>
> Date: Thu, 20 May 2021 21:59:50 +0900
> Subject: [PATCH] ALSA: firewire-lib: Fix uninitialized variable err issue
>
> The check of error is just done for the case that CIP header is available.
>
> This commit moves auto variable into the branch to process CIP header.
>
> Addresses-Coverity: ("Uninitialized scalar variable")
> Fixes: c09010eeb373 ("ALSA: firewire-lib: handle the case that empty isochronous packet payload for CIP")
> Suggested-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king at canonical.com>
> Signed-off-by: Takashi Sakamoto <o-takashi at sakamocchi.jp>
> ---
> sound/firewire/amdtp-stream.c | 6 +++---
> 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/sound/firewire/amdtp-stream.c b/sound/firewire/amdtp-stream.c
> index 37c8de8a..11ae4e88 100644
> --- a/sound/firewire/amdtp-stream.c
> +++ b/sound/firewire/amdtp-stream.c
> @@ -748,7 +748,6 @@ static int parse_ir_ctx_header(struct amdtp_stream *s, unsigned int cycle,
> unsigned int payload_length;
> const __be32 *cip_header;
> unsigned int cip_header_size;
> - int err;
>
> payload_length = be32_to_cpu(ctx_header[0]) >> ISO_DATA_LENGTH_SHIFT;
>
> @@ -766,6 +765,8 @@ static int parse_ir_ctx_header(struct amdtp_stream *s, unsigned int cycle,
>
> if (cip_header_size > 0) {
> if (payload_length >= cip_header_size) {
> + int err;
> +
> cip_header = ctx_header + IR_CTX_HEADER_DEFAULT_QUADLETS;
> err = check_cip_header(s, cip_header, payload_length - cip_header_size,
> data_blocks, data_block_counter, syt);
> @@ -779,7 +780,6 @@ static int parse_ir_ctx_header(struct amdtp_stream *s, unsigned int cycle,
> }
> } else {
> cip_header = NULL;
> - err = 0;
> *data_blocks = payload_length / sizeof(__be32) / s->data_block_quadlets;
> *syt = 0;
>
> @@ -790,7 +790,7 @@ static int parse_ir_ctx_header(struct amdtp_stream *s, unsigned int cycle,
> trace_amdtp_packet(s, cycle, cip_header, payload_length, *data_blocks,
> *data_block_counter, packet_index, index);
>
> - return err;
> + return 0;
> }
>
> // In CYCLE_TIMER register of IEEE 1394, 7 bits are used to represent second. On
> --
> 2.27.0
> ======== 8< --------
Thanks for applying the patch but the commit in your tree includes
duplicated From/Data/Subject lines and causes failure of git-am for the
patch simply generated by git-am. Is it possible for you to modify
history of your for-next branch with enough correction?
* https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tiwai/sound.git/commit/?id=b493305483cb609abcf24c56f7415746c7e6939a
Regards
Takashi Sakamoto
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