Use of uninitialized memory in rate_control_pid_alloc()

["Vegard Nossum" <vegard.nossum@gmail.com>]

Hi,

kmemcheck found this in next-20080704:

This patch:

commit 1946b74ce03c4edecabde80d027da00a7eab56ca
Author: Mattias Nissler <mattias.nissler@gmx.de>
Date:   Thu Dec 20 13:27:26 2007 +0100

    rc80211-pid: export tuning parameters through debugfs

contained this hunk (net/mac80211/rc80211_pid_algo.c):

@@ -363,10 +375,10 @@ static void *rate_control_pid_alloc(struct ieee80211_local
        for (i = 0; i < mode->num_rates; i++) {
                rinfo[i].index = i;
                rinfo[i].rev_index = i;
-               if (RC_PID_FAST_START)
+               if (pinfo->fast_start)
                        rinfo[i].diff = 0;
                else
-                       rinfo[i].diff = i * RC_PID_NORM_OFFSET;
+                       rinfo[i].diff = i * pinfo->norm_offset;
        }
        for (i = 1; i < mode->num_rates; i++) {
                s = 0;

which is obviously wrong, since "pinfo" is allocated just above and
has never been initialized.

It seems that this is present (unfixed) in mainline as well.


Vegard

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