On Thu 7 February 2013 11:44:54 Dan Carpenter wrote: > Hello Hans Verkuil, > > The patch 770056c47fbb: "[media] tm6000: add support for control > events and prio handling" from Sep 11, 2012, leads to the following > Smatch warning: > "drivers/media/usb/tm6000/tm6000-video.c:1462 __tm6000_poll() > error: potentially dereferencing uninitialized 'buf'." > > drivers/media/usb/tm6000/tm6000-video.c > 1453 if (!is_res_read(fh->dev, fh)) { > 1454 /* streaming capture */ > 1455 if (list_empty(&fh->vb_vidq.stream)) > 1456 return res | POLLERR; > 1457 buf = list_entry(fh->vb_vidq.stream.next, struct tm6000_buffer, vb.stream); > 1458 } else if (req_events & (POLLIN | POLLRDNORM)) { > 1459 /* read() capture */ > 1460 return res | videobuf_poll_stream(file, &fh->vb_vidq, wait); > 1461 } > > If we don't hit either side of the if else statement then buf is > uninitialized. Oops! Thanks for catching this. I'll post a patch immediately. Regards, Hans > > 1462 poll_wait(file, &buf->vb.done, wait); > 1463 if (buf->vb.state == VIDEOBUF_DONE || > 1464 buf->vb.state == VIDEOBUF_ERROR) > 1465 return res | POLLIN | POLLRDNORM; > 1466 return res; > > regards, > dan carpenter > > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-media" in > the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-media" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html