This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
coresight: core: Fix use of uninitialized pointer
to the 5.13-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:
coresight-core-fix-use-of-uninitialized-pointer.patch
and it can be found in the queue-5.13 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
commit 7e58376f051cfa06e90ba8c868b8b37a11a4aad3
Author: Junhao He <hejunhao2@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon Jun 14 11:58:57 2021 -0600
coresight: core: Fix use of uninitialized pointer
[ Upstream commit d777a8991847729ec4e2a13fcad58c2b00bb19dc ]
Currently the pointer "sink" might be checked before initialized. Fix
this by initializing this pointer.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/1620912469-52222-2-git-send-email-liuqi115@xxxxxxxxxx
Fixes: 6d578258b955 ("coresight: Make sysfs functional on topologies with per core sink")
Signed-off-by: Junhao He <hejunhao2@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Qi Liu <liuqi115@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Suzuki K Poulose <suzuki.poulose@xxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Mathieu Poirier <mathieu.poirier@xxxxxxxxxx>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210614175901.532683-3-mathieu.poirier@xxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx>
diff --git a/drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-core.c b/drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-core.c
index 6c68d34d956e..4ddf3d233844 100644
--- a/drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-core.c
+++ b/drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-core.c
@@ -608,7 +608,7 @@ static struct coresight_device *
coresight_find_enabled_sink(struct coresight_device *csdev)
{
int i;
- struct coresight_device *sink;
+ struct coresight_device *sink = NULL;
if ((csdev->type == CORESIGHT_DEV_TYPE_SINK ||
csdev->type == CORESIGHT_DEV_TYPE_LINKSINK) &&
