Patch "hwmon: (asus_atk0110) fix uninitialized data access" has been added to the 4.9-stable tree

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

hwmon: (asus_atk0110) fix uninitialized data access

to the 4.9-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:
hwmon-asus_atk0110-fix-uninitialized-data-access.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.9 subdirectory.

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

From: Arnd Bergmann <[email protected]>
Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2017 16:03:11 +0100
Subject: hwmon: (asus_atk0110) fix uninitialized data access

From: Arnd Bergmann <[email protected]>

[ Upstream commit a2125d02443e9a4e68bcfd9f8004fa23239e8329 ]

The latest gcc-7 snapshot adds a warning to point out that when atk_read_value_old or atk_read_value_new fails, we copy uninitialized data into sensor->cached_value:

drivers/hwmon/asus_atk0110.c: In function 'atk_input_show':
drivers/hwmon/asus_atk0110.c:651:26: error: 'value' may be used uninitialized in this function [-Werror=maybe-uninitialized]

Adding an error check avoids this. All versions of the driver are affected.

---
 drivers/hwmon/asus_atk0110.c |    3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

@@ -646,6 +646,9 @@ static int atk_read_value(struct atk_sen
 		else
 			err = atk_read_value_new(sensor, value);
 
+		if (err)
+			return err;
+
 		sensor->is_valid = true;
 		sensor->last_updated = jiffies;
 		sensor->cached_value = *value;

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

queue-4.9/hwmon-asus_atk0110-fix-uninitialized-data-access.patch queue-4.9/bna-avoid-writing-uninitialized-data-into-hw-registers.patch queue-4.9/virtio-balloon-use-actual-number-of-stats-for-stats-queue-buffers.patch queue-4.9/virtio_balloon-prevent-uninitialized-variable-use.patch queue-4.9/isdn-kcapi-avoid-uninitialized-data.patch