[PATCH] nvme: initialize variable before logical OR'ing it

J Freyensee james_p_freyensee at linux.intel.com
Tue Jul 19 12:31:23 PDT 2016


On Thu, 2016-06-02 at 08:51 -0700, Jay Freyensee wrote:

Jens,

I believe this patch fix got missed?  Or is there a problem with this
patch?

Thanks,
Jay

> It is typically not good coding or secure coding practice
> to logical OR a variable without an initialization value first.
> Here on this line:
> 
> integrity.flags |= BLK_INTEGRITY_DEVICE_CAPABLE;
> 
> BLK_INTEGRITY_DEVICE_CAPABLE is being OR'ed to a member variable
> never set to an initial value. This patch fixes that.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jay Freyensee <james.p.freyensee at intel.com>
> Reviewed-by: Ming Lin <ming.l at samsung.com>
> Reviewed-by: Sagi Grimberg <sagi at grimberg.me>
> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch at lst.de>
> 
> ---
>  drivers/nvme/host/core.c | 1 +
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/nvme/host/core.c b/drivers/nvme/host/core.c
> index f6f6fdf..33fe610 100644
> --- a/drivers/nvme/host/core.c
> +++ b/drivers/nvme/host/core.c
> @@ -843,6 +843,7 @@ static void nvme_init_integrity(struct nvme_ns
> *ns)
>  {
>  	struct blk_integrity integrity;
>  
> +	memset(&integrity, 0, sizeof(integrity));
>  	switch (ns->pi_type) {
>  	case NVME_NS_DPS_PI_TYPE3:
>  		integrity.profile = &t10_pi_type3_crc;



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