This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled watchdog: pcwd_usb: Fix attempting to access uninitialized memory 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: watchdog-pcwd_usb-fix-attempting-to-access-uninitial.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 e1657457be0443ea686d9640f08b22057910ce06 Author: Li Hua <hucool.lihua@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Wed Nov 16 10:07:06 2022 +0800 watchdog: pcwd_usb: Fix attempting to access uninitialized memory [ Upstream commit 7d06c07c67100fd0f8e6b3ab7145ce789f788117 ] The stack variable msb and lsb may be used uninitialized in function usb_pcwd_get_temperature and usb_pcwd_get_timeleft when usb card no response. The build waring is: drivers/watchdog/pcwd_usb.c:336:22: error: ‘lsb’ is used uninitialized in this function [-Werror=uninitialized] *temperature = (lsb * 9 / 5) + 32; ~~~~^~~ drivers/watchdog/pcwd_usb.c:328:21: note: ‘lsb’ was declared here unsigned char msb, lsb; ^~~ cc1: all warnings being treated as errors scripts/Makefile.build:250: recipe for target 'drivers/watchdog/pcwd_usb.o' failed make[3]: *** [drivers/watchdog/pcwd_usb.o] Error 1 Fixes: b7e04f8c61a4 ("mv watchdog tree under drivers") Signed-off-by: Li Hua <hucool.lihua@xxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20221116020706.70847-1-hucool.lihua@xxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Wim Van Sebroeck <wim@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/drivers/watchdog/pcwd_usb.c b/drivers/watchdog/pcwd_usb.c index 6727f8ab2d182..ce94b6f354888 100644 --- a/drivers/watchdog/pcwd_usb.c +++ b/drivers/watchdog/pcwd_usb.c @@ -325,7 +325,8 @@ static int usb_pcwd_set_heartbeat(struct usb_pcwd_private *usb_pcwd, int t) static int usb_pcwd_get_temperature(struct usb_pcwd_private *usb_pcwd, int *temperature) { - unsigned char msb, lsb; + unsigned char msb = 0x00; + unsigned char lsb = 0x00; usb_pcwd_send_command(usb_pcwd, CMD_READ_TEMP, &msb, &lsb); @@ -341,7 +342,8 @@ static int usb_pcwd_get_temperature(struct usb_pcwd_private *usb_pcwd, static int usb_pcwd_get_timeleft(struct usb_pcwd_private *usb_pcwd, int *time_left) { - unsigned char msb, lsb; + unsigned char msb = 0x00; + unsigned char lsb = 0x00; /* Read the time that's left before rebooting */ /* Note: if the board is not yet armed then we will read 0xFFFF */