This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled media: gspca/sq905.c: fix uninitialized variable to the 5.4-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: media-gspca-sq905.c-fix-uninitialized-variable.patch and it can be found in the queue-5.4 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. commit 1339552288d078d8c420229635dd6b79c5efe5ee Author: Hans Verkuil <hverkuil-cisco@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Thu Mar 11 15:46:40 2021 +0100 media: gspca/sq905.c: fix uninitialized variable [ Upstream commit eaaea4681984c79d2b2b160387b297477f0c1aab ] act_len can be uninitialized if usb_bulk_msg() returns an error. Set it to 0 to avoid a KMSAN error. Signed-off-by: Hans Verkuil <hverkuil-cisco@xxxxxxxxx> Reported-by: syzbot+a4e309017a5f3a24c7b3@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/drivers/media/usb/gspca/sq905.c b/drivers/media/usb/gspca/sq905.c index 863c485f4275..65a74060986a 100644 --- a/drivers/media/usb/gspca/sq905.c +++ b/drivers/media/usb/gspca/sq905.c @@ -158,7 +158,7 @@ static int sq905_read_data(struct gspca_dev *gspca_dev, u8 *data, int size, int need_lock) { int ret; - int act_len; + int act_len = 0; gspca_dev->usb_buf[0] = '\0'; if (need_lock)