powerpc: Always initialize input array when calling epapr_hypercall()
Michael Ellerman
patch-notifications at ellerman.id.au
Sun Oct 8 19:43:36 AEDT 2017
On Thu, 2017-09-28 at 13:33:39 UTC, Seth Forshee wrote:
> Several callers to epapr_hypercall() pass an uninitialized stack
> allocated array for the input arguments, presumably because they
> have no input arguments. However this can produce errors like
> this one
>
> arch/powerpc/include/asm/epapr_hcalls.h:470:42: error: 'in' may be used uninitialized in this function [-Werror=maybe-uninitialized]
> unsigned long register r3 asm("r3") = in[0];
> ~~^~~
>
> Fix callers to this function to always zero-initialize the input
> arguments array to prevent this.
>
> Signed-off-by: Seth Forshee <seth.forshee at canonical.com>
Applied to powerpc next, thanks.
https://git.kernel.org/powerpc/c/186b8f1587c79c2fa04bfa392fdf08
cheers
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