Re: drivers/staging/vc04_services/interface/vchiq_arm/vchiq_arm.c:1056 vchiq_get_user_ptr() error: uninitialized symbol 'ptr'.

[Arnd Bergmann]

On Mon, Jan 4, 2021 at 11:54 AM Dan Carpenter <dan.carpen...@oracle.com> wrote:

>
> 5d240a54be7e592 Arnd Bergmann 2020-09-18  1044  static inline int 
> vchiq_get_user_ptr(void __user **buf, void __user *ubuf, int index)
> 5d240a54be7e592 Arnd Bergmann 2020-09-18  1045  {
> 5d240a54be7e592 Arnd Bergmann 2020-09-18  1046          int ret;
> 5d240a54be7e592 Arnd Bergmann 2020-09-18  1047
> 5d240a54be7e592 Arnd Bergmann 2020-09-18  1048          if 
> (in_compat_syscall()) {
> 4184da4f316a549 Arnd Bergmann 2020-09-25  1049                  compat_uptr_t 
> ptr32;
> 5d240a54be7e592 Arnd Bergmann 2020-09-18  1050                  compat_uptr_t 
> __user *uptr = ubuf;
> 4184da4f316a549 Arnd Bergmann 2020-09-25  1051                  ret = 
> get_user(ptr32, uptr + index);
> 5d240a54be7e592 Arnd Bergmann 2020-09-18  1052                  *buf = 
> compat_ptr(ptr32);
> 5d240a54be7e592 Arnd Bergmann 2020-09-18  1053          } else {
> 4184da4f316a549 Arnd Bergmann 2020-09-25  1054                  uintptr_t 
> ptr, __user *uptr = ubuf;
> 4184da4f316a549 Arnd Bergmann 2020-09-25  1055                  ret = 
> get_user(ptr, uptr + index);
> 4184da4f316a549 Arnd Bergmann 2020-09-25 @1056                  *buf = (void 
> __user *)ptr;
>
> If get_user() fails then this is uninitialized.  This will trigger a
> runtime error if the UBSan uninitialized behavior tool is enabled.

Thanks for the report, I sent a fix now.

      Arnd