This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
acer-wmi: avoid the warning of 'devices' may be used uninitialized
to the 3.8-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:
acer-wmi-avoid-the-warning-of-devices-may-be-used-uninitialized.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.8 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From f24c96eae58aeea4c36fb064cf3ee9734933f8fc Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "Lee, Chun-Yi" <joeyli.kernel@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 3 Jan 2013 10:37:45 +0800
Subject: acer-wmi: avoid the warning of 'devices' may be used uninitialized
From: "Lee, Chun-Yi" <joeyli.kernel@xxxxxxxxx>
commit f24c96eae58aeea4c36fb064cf3ee9734933f8fc upstream.
Fengguang Wu run kernel build test to platform-drivers-x86/linux-next git tree
on x86_64 architecture and found a warning that was introduced by
727651bf738b6b917335025d09323d0962eda114 commit:
drivers/platform/x86/acer-wmi.c: In function �WMID_set_capabilities�:
drivers/platform/x86/acer-wmi.c:1211: warning: �devices� may be used
uninitialized in this function
This patch fixes the above warning message.
Signed-off-by: Lee, Chun-Yi <jlee@xxxxxxxx>
Cc: Carlos Corbacho <carlos@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Matthew Garrett <mjg@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@xxxxxxx>
Cc: Corentin Chary <corentincj@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Matthew Garrett <matthew.garrett@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Paul Bolle <pebolle@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/platform/x86/acer-wmi.c | 3 +++
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
--- a/drivers/platform/x86/acer-wmi.c
+++ b/drivers/platform/x86/acer-wmi.c
@@ -1204,6 +1204,9 @@ static acpi_status WMID_set_capabilities
devices = *((u32 *) obj->buffer.pointer);
} else if (obj->type == ACPI_TYPE_INTEGER) {
devices = (u32) obj->integer.value;
+ } else {
+ kfree(out.pointer);
+ return AE_ERROR;
}
} else {
kfree(out.pointer);
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from joeyli.kernel@xxxxxxxxx are
queue-3.8/acer-wmi-avoid-the-warning-of-devices-may-be-used-uninitialized.patch
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