Re: [PATCH][next] staging: qlge: fix read of an uninitialized pointer

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On Wed, Feb 03, 2021 at 01:38:34PM +0000, Colin King wrote:
From: Colin Ian King <colin.king@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Currently the pointer 'reporter' is not being initialized and is
being read in a netdev_warn message.  The pointer is not used
and is redundant, fix this by removing it and replacing the reference
to it with priv->reporter instead.

Addresses-Coverity: ("Uninitialized pointer read")
Fixes: 1053c27804df ("staging: qlge: coredump via devlink health reporter")
Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/staging/qlge/qlge_devlink.c | 3 +--
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/staging/qlge/qlge_devlink.c b/drivers/staging/qlge/qlge_devlink.c
index c6ef5163e241..86834d96cebf 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/qlge/qlge_devlink.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/qlge/qlge_devlink.c
@@ -150,7 +150,6 @@ static const struct devlink_health_reporter_ops qlge_reporter_ops = {

void qlge_health_create_reporters(struct qlge_adapter *priv)
{
-	struct devlink_health_reporter *reporter;
	struct devlink *devlink;

	devlink = priv_to_devlink(priv);
@@ -160,5 +159,5 @@ void qlge_health_create_reporters(struct qlge_adapter *priv)
	if (IS_ERR(priv->reporter))
		netdev_warn(priv->ndev,
			    "Failed to create reporter, err = %ld\n",
-			    PTR_ERR(reporter));
+			    PTR_ERR(priv->reporter));
}
--
2.29.2


Thanks for fixing this issue.

Reviewed-by: Coiby Xu <coiby.xu@xxxxxxxxx>

--
Best regards,
Coiby



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