Re: [PATCH] driver core: Fix an uninitialized variable is used by __device_attach()

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On 2024/8/23 08:02, Dmitry Torokhov wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Fri, Aug 23, 2024 at 07:46:09AM +0800, Zijun Hu wrote:
>> From: Zijun Hu <quic_zijuhu@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>>
>> An uninitialized variable @data.have_async may be used as analyzed
>> by the following inline comments:
>>
>> static int __device_attach(struct device *dev, bool allow_async)
>> {
>> 	// if @allow_async is true.
>>
>> 	...
>> 	struct device_attach_data data = {
>> 		.dev = dev,
>> 		.check_async = allow_async,
>> 		.want_async = false,
>> 	};
>> 	// @data.have_async is not initialized.
> 
> No, in the presence of a structure initializer fields not explicitly
> initialized will be set to 0 by the compiler.
> 
really?
do all C compilers have such behavior ?

> There is no issue here.
> 
> Thanks.
> 





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