This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled net: usb: rtl8150 fix unintiatilzed variables in rtl8150_get_link_ksettings to the 4.19-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: net-usb-rtl8150-fix-unintiatilzed-variables-in-rtl81.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.19 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. commit dde77b402a0a727ea1ae67131109c12476ea876c Author: Oliver Neukum <oneukum@xxxxxxxx> Date: Wed Jun 19 15:28:03 2024 +0200 net: usb: rtl8150 fix unintiatilzed variables in rtl8150_get_link_ksettings [ Upstream commit fba383985354e83474f95f36d7c65feb75dba19d ] This functions retrieves values by passing a pointer. As the function that retrieves them can fail before touching the pointers, the variables must be initialized. Fixes: 1da177e4c3f4 ("Linux-2.6.12-rc2") Reported-by: syzbot+5186630949e3c55f0799@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Oliver Neukum <oneukum@xxxxxxxx> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240619132816.11526-1-oneukum@xxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/drivers/net/usb/rtl8150.c b/drivers/net/usb/rtl8150.c index 933d1a74bcdb3..9534c2f6dcef6 100644 --- a/drivers/net/usb/rtl8150.c +++ b/drivers/net/usb/rtl8150.c @@ -804,7 +804,8 @@ static int rtl8150_get_link_ksettings(struct net_device *netdev, struct ethtool_link_ksettings *ecmd) { rtl8150_t *dev = netdev_priv(netdev); - short lpa, bmcr; + short lpa = 0; + short bmcr = 0; u32 supported; supported = (SUPPORTED_10baseT_Half |