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Patch "nfc: netlink: Warning fix" has been added to the 4.2-stable tree

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This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

nfc: netlink: Warning fix

to the 4.2-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
nfc-netlink-warning-fix.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.2 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <[email protected]> know about it.

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From adca3c38d807b341a965d0aba8721d0784d8471b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001

From: Christophe Ricard <[email protected]>
Date: Mon, 17 Aug 2015 08:33:43 +0200
Subject: nfc: netlink: Warning fix

From: Christophe Ricard <[email protected]>

commit adca3c38d807b341a965d0aba8721d0784d8471b upstream.

When NFC_ATTR_VENDOR_DATA is not set, data_len is 0 and data is NULL.

Fixes the following warning:

net/nfc/netlink.c:1536:3: warning: 'data' may be used uninitialized +in this function [-Wmaybe-uninitialized]

      return cmd->doit(dev, data, data_len);
---
 net/nfc/netlink.c |    1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
net/nfc/netlink.c +1 -0
@@ -1524,6 +1524,7 @@ static int nfc_genl_vendor_cmd(struct sk
 		if (data_len == 0)
 			return -EINVAL;
 	} else {
+		data = NULL;
 		data_len = 0;
 	}
 

Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from [email protected] are

queue-4.2/nfc-st-nci-fix-typo-when-changing-from-st21nfcb-to-st-nci.patch queue-4.2/nfc-st-nci-remove-duplicate-file-platform_data-st_nci.h.patch queue-4.2/nfc-st-nci-fix-non-accurate-comment-for-st_nci_i2c_read.patch queue-4.2/nfc-st-nci-free-data-with-irrelevant-ndlc-pcb_sync-value.patch queue-4.2/nfc-st-nci-fix-use-of-uninitialized-variables-in-error-path.patch queue-4.2/nfc-netlink-warning-fix.patch queue-4.2/nfc-st-nci-remove-data-from-ack_pending_q-when-receiving-a-sync_ack.patch queue-4.2/nfc-netlink-add-check-on-nfc_attr_vendor_data.patch queue-4.2/nfc-nci-hci-add-check-on-skb-nci_hci_send_cmd-parameter.patch queue-4.2/nfc-st21nfca-fix-use-of-uninitialized-variables-in-error-path.patch