[PATCH] ipmi: fix uninitialized data bug

gcc issues the following warning:

drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_si_intf.c: In function â\80\98init_ipmi_siâ\80\99:
drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_si_intf.c:1729: warning: â\80\98data.irqâ\80\99 may be used uninitialized in this function

This is indeed a bug.  data.irq is completely uninitialized in some code
paths.  Worse than that, data from a previous decode_dmi() run can easily
leak through successive calls.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Acked-by: Corey Minyard <minyard@acm.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

diff --git a/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_si_intf.c b/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_si_intf.c
index 908521e..ad9ea06 100644 (file)
--- a/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_si_intf.c
+++ b/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_si_intf.c
@@ -1734,6 +1734,7 @@ static void __devinit dmi_find_bmc(void)
        int                  rv;
 
        while ((dev = dmi_find_device(DMI_DEV_TYPE_IPMI, NULL, dev))) {
+               memset(&data, 0, sizeof(data));
                rv = decode_dmi((struct dmi_header *) dev->device_data, &data);
                if (!rv)
                        try_init_dmi(&data);