Colin Ian King <colin.king@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> From: Colin Ian King <colin.king@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> 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 <colin.king@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Reviewed-by: Michael Buesch <m@xxxxxxx>
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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https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/9939435/
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