This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled um: line: always fill *error_out in setup_one_line() 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: um-line-always-fill-error_out-in-setup_one_line.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 1f91b37f9214d5f193bd13532e0c5e58238f60c3 Author: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Wed Jul 3 17:22:36 2024 +0200 um: line: always fill *error_out in setup_one_line() [ Upstream commit 824ac4a5edd3f7494ab1996826c4f47f8ef0f63d ] The pointer isn't initialized by callers, but I have encountered cases where it's still printed; initialize it in all possible cases in setup_one_line(). Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20240703172235.ad863568b55f.Iaa1eba4db8265d7715ba71d5f6bb8c7ff63d27e9@changeid Acked-By: Anton Ivanov <anton.ivanov@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/arch/um/drivers/line.c b/arch/um/drivers/line.c index 71e26488dfde..b5c3bc0e6bce 100644 --- a/arch/um/drivers/line.c +++ b/arch/um/drivers/line.c @@ -391,6 +391,7 @@ int setup_one_line(struct line *lines, int n, char *init, parse_chan_pair(NULL, line, n, opts, error_out); err = 0; } + *error_out = "configured as 'none'"; } else { char *new = kstrdup(init, GFP_KERNEL); if (!new) { @@ -414,6 +415,7 @@ int setup_one_line(struct line *lines, int n, char *init, } } if (err) { + *error_out = "failed to parse channel pair"; line->init_str = NULL; line->valid = 0; kfree(new);