[PATCH] Staging: rtl8188eu: rtw_mlme: Fix uninitialized variable authmode

dinghao.liu at zju.edu.cn dinghao.liu at zju.edu.cn
Mon Jul 27 14:45:24 UTC 2020


> I review things in the order that they appear in my inbox so I hadn't
> seen Greg and Larry's comments.  You've now stumbled into an area of
> politics where you have conflicting reviews...  :P  Fortunately, we're
> all of us reasonable people.
> 
> I think your patch is correct in that it is what the original coder
> intended.  You just need to sell the patch correctly in the commit
> message.  The real danger of the original code would be if "authmode" is
> accidentally 0x30 or 0xdd just because it was uninitialized.  Setting it
> to zero ensures that it is not and it also matches how this is handled
> in the rtl8723bs driver.  This matches the original author's intention.
> 
> So:
> 
> 1) Re-write the commit message.
> 
>     The variable authmode can be uninitialized.  The danger would be
>     if it equals _WPA_IE_ID_ (0xdd) or _WPA2_IE_ID_ (0x33).  We can
>     avoid this by setting it to zero instead.  This is the approach that
>     was used in the rtl8723bs driver.
> 
> 2) Add a fixes tag.
>    Fixes: 7b464c9fa5cc ("staging: r8188eu: Add files for new driver - part 4")
> 
> 3) Change the commit to Larry's style with the "else if" and "else".
>    Sometimes people just disagree about style so it's easiest to go with
>    whatever the maintainer (Larry) wants.  It's not worth debating one
>    way or the other so just redo it.
> 
> Then resend.  Google for "how to send a v2 patch" to get the right
> format.
> 
> regards,
> dan carpenter
> 

Your advice is very helpful to me, thanks! I will prepare v2 patch and
resend it soon.

Regards,
Dinghao



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