A new warning in clang [1] points out that id_reg is uninitialized then passed to memstick_init_req() as a const pointer:
drivers/memstick/core/memstick.c:330:59: error: variable 'id_reg' is uninitialized when passed as a const pointer argument here [-Werror,-Wuninitialized-const-pointer] 330 | memstick_init_req(&card->current_mrq, MS_TPC_READ_REG, &id_reg, | ^~~~~~
Commit de182cc8e882 ("drivers/memstick/core/memstick.c: avoid -Wnonnull warning") intentionally passed this variable uninitialized to avoid an -Wnonnull warning from a NULL value that was previously there because id_reg is never read from the call to memstick_init_req() in h_memstick_read_dev_id(). Just zero initialize id_reg to avoid the warning, which is likely happening in the majority of builds using modern compilers that support '-ftrivial-auto-var-init=zero'.
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Fixes: de182cc8e882 ("drivers/memstick/core/memstick.c: avoid -Wnonnull warning") Link: https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/commit/00dacf8c22f065cb52efb14cd091d441... [1] Closes: https://github.com/ClangBuiltLinux/linux/issues/2105 Signed-off-by: Nathan Chancellor nathan@kernel.org --- drivers/memstick/core/memstick.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/drivers/memstick/core/memstick.c b/drivers/memstick/core/memstick.c index 043b9ec756ff..7f3f47db4c98 100644 --- a/drivers/memstick/core/memstick.c +++ b/drivers/memstick/core/memstick.c @@ -324,7 +324,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(memstick_init_req); static int h_memstick_read_dev_id(struct memstick_dev *card, struct memstick_request **mrq) { - struct ms_id_register id_reg; + struct ms_id_register id_reg = {};
if (!(*mrq)) { memstick_init_req(&card->current_mrq, MS_TPC_READ_REG, &id_reg,
--- base-commit: ff09b71bf9daeca4f21d6e5e449641c9fad75b53 change-id: 20250715-memstick-fix-uninit-const-pointer-ed6f138bf40d
Best regards, -- Nathan Chancellor nathan@kernel.org