[PATCH] staging/media/as102: Don't call release_firmware() on uninitialized variable

Jesper Juhl jj at chaosbits.net
Sat Mar 24 22:39:18 UTC 2012


If, in drivers/staging/media/as102/as102_fw.c::as102_fw_upload(), the call
	cmd_buf = kzalloc(MAX_FW_PKT_SIZE, GFP_KERNEL);
should fail and return NULL so that we jump to the 'error:' label,
then we'll end up calling 'release_firmware(firmware);' with
'firmware' still uninitialized - not good.

The easy fix is to just initialize 'firmware' to NULL when we declare
it, since release_firmware() deals gracefully with being passed NULL
pointers.

Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jj at chaosbits.net>
---
 drivers/staging/media/as102/as102_fw.c |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

 Only compile tested.

diff --git a/drivers/staging/media/as102/as102_fw.c b/drivers/staging/media/as102/as102_fw.c
index 43ebc43..1075fb1 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/media/as102/as102_fw.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/media/as102/as102_fw.c
@@ -165,7 +165,7 @@ error:
 int as102_fw_upload(struct as10x_bus_adapter_t *bus_adap)
 {
 	int errno = -EFAULT;
-	const struct firmware *firmware;
+	const struct firmware *firmware = NULL;
 	unsigned char *cmd_buf = NULL;
 	char *fw1, *fw2;
 	struct usb_device *dev = bus_adap->usb_dev;
-- 
1.7.9.4


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