From: Colin Ian King Date: Wed, 22 May 2019 08:39:03 +0000 (+0100) Subject: scsi: hpsa: fix an uninitialized read and dereference of pointer dev X-Git-Tag: v5.3-rc1~131^2~100 X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=36631157eb3ff8b0b359d574452ebb8f81370ec5;p=thirdparty%2Fkernel%2Fstable.git scsi: hpsa: fix an uninitialized read and dereference of pointer dev Currently the check for a lockup_detected failure exits via the label return_reset_status that reads and dereferences an uninitialized pointer dev. Fix this by ensuring dev is inintialized to null. Addresses-Coverity: ("Uninitialized pointer read") Fixes: 14991a5bade5 ("scsi: hpsa: correct device resets") Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King Acked-by: Don Brace Reviewed-by: Nathan Chancellor Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen --- diff --git a/drivers/scsi/hpsa.c b/drivers/scsi/hpsa.c index c560a45327332..ac8338b0571bd 100644 --- a/drivers/scsi/hpsa.c +++ b/drivers/scsi/hpsa.c @@ -5947,7 +5947,7 @@ static int hpsa_eh_device_reset_handler(struct scsi_cmnd *scsicmd) int rc = SUCCESS; int i; struct ctlr_info *h; - struct hpsa_scsi_dev_t *dev; + struct hpsa_scsi_dev_t *dev = NULL; u8 reset_type; char msg[48]; unsigned long flags;