Re: [PATCH] ASoC: Intel: mrfld: fix uninitialized variable access

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On 11/3/18 4:21 PM, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
Randconfig testing revealed a very old bug, with gcc-8:

sound/soc/intel/atom/sst/sst_loader.c: In function 'sst_load_fw':
sound/soc/intel/atom/sst/sst_loader.c:357:5: error: 'fw' may be used uninitialized in this function [-Werror=maybe-uninitialized]
   if (fw == NULL) {
      ^
sound/soc/intel/atom/sst/sst_loader.c:354:25: note: 'fw' was declared here
   const struct firmware *fw;

We must check the return code of request_firmware() before we look at the
pointer result that may be uninitialized when the function fails.

yes indeed, good catch.

Acked-by: Pierre-Louis Bossart <pierre-louis.bossart@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>


Fixes: 9012c9544eea ("ASoC: Intel: mrfld - Add DSP load and management")
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>
---
  sound/soc/intel/atom/sst/sst_loader.c | 8 ++++----
  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/sound/soc/intel/atom/sst/sst_loader.c b/sound/soc/intel/atom/sst/sst_loader.c
index 27413ebae956..b8c456753f01 100644
--- a/sound/soc/intel/atom/sst/sst_loader.c
+++ b/sound/soc/intel/atom/sst/sst_loader.c
@@ -354,14 +354,14 @@ static int sst_request_fw(struct intel_sst_drv *sst)
  	const struct firmware *fw;
retval = request_firmware(&fw, sst->firmware_name, sst->dev);
-	if (fw == NULL) {
-		dev_err(sst->dev, "fw is returning as null\n");
-		return -EINVAL;
-	}
  	if (retval) {
  		dev_err(sst->dev, "request fw failed %d\n", retval);
  		return retval;
  	}
+	if (fw == NULL) {
+		dev_err(sst->dev, "fw is returning as null\n");
+		return -EINVAL;
+	}
  	mutex_lock(&sst->sst_lock);
  	retval = sst_cache_and_parse_fw(sst, fw);
  	mutex_unlock(&sst->sst_lock);
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