The patch titled
RTC/watchdog: M41T80: fix a potential use of unitialized data
has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is
rtc-watchdog-m41t80-fix-a-potential-use-of-unitialized-data.patch
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Subject: RTC/watchdog: M41T80: fix a potential use of unitialized data
From: "Maciej W. Rozycki" <macro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Watchdog handlers within the driver make use of "save_client" -- make sure it
has been initalized before the handlers are registered.
Signed-off-by: Maciej W. Rozycki <macro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Alessandro Zummo <a.zummo@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Alexander Bigga <ab@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Wim Van Sebroeck <wim@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: David Brownell <david-b@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/rtc/rtc-m41t80.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff -puN drivers/rtc/rtc-m41t80.c~rtc-watchdog-m41t80-fix-a-potential-use-of-unitialized-data drivers/rtc/rtc-m41t80.c
--- a/drivers/rtc/rtc-m41t80.c~rtc-watchdog-m41t80-fix-a-potential-use-of-unitialized-data
+++ a/drivers/rtc/rtc-m41t80.c
@@ -803,6 +803,7 @@ static int m41t80_probe(struct i2c_clien
#ifdef CONFIG_RTC_DRV_M41T80_WDT
if (clientdata->features & M41T80_FEATURE_HT) {
+ save_client = client;
rc = misc_register(&wdt_dev);
if (rc)
goto exit;
@@ -811,7 +812,6 @@ static int m41t80_probe(struct i2c_clien
misc_deregister(&wdt_dev);
goto exit;
}
- save_client = client;
}
#endif
return 0;
_
Patches currently in -mm which might be from macro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx are
rtc-rtc_time_to_tm-use-unsigned-arithmetic.patch
rtc-rtc_time_to_tm-use-unsigned-arithmetic-fix.patch
rtc-watchdog-m41t80-fix-a-potential-use-of-unitialized-data.patch
linux-next.patch
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