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

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On Fri, Aug 23, 2024 at 08:46:12AM +0800, Zijun Hu wrote:
> 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 ?

Yes, all conforming to the C standard.

Thanks.

-- 
Dmitry




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