[3.16.y-ckt stable] Patch "ALSA: hda - using uninitialized data" has been added to staging queue

[Luis Henriques]

This is a note to let you know that I have just added a patch titled

    ALSA: hda - using uninitialized data

to the linux-3.16.y-queue branch of the 3.16.y-ckt extended stable tree 
which can be found at:

 http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git?p=ubuntu/linux.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/linux-3.16.y-queue

This patch is scheduled to be released in version 3.16.7-ckt5.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to this tree, please 
reply to this email.

For more information about the 3.16.y-ckt tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

Thanks.
-Luis

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>From 8b148cc7c108d7a1ad68ac1e345940df7bc9fedd Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter at oracle.com>
Date: Thu, 27 Nov 2014 01:34:43 +0300
Subject: ALSA: hda - using uninitialized data

commit 69eba10e606a80665f8573221fec589430d9d1cb upstream.

In olden times the snd_hda_param_read() function always set "*start_id"
but in 2007 we introduced a new return and it causes uninitialized data
bugs in a couple of the callers: print_codec_info() and
hdmi_parse_codec().

Fixes: e8a7f136f5ed ('[ALSA] hda-intel - Improve HD-audio codec probing robustness')
Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter at oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai at suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques <luis.henriques at canonical.com>
---
 sound/pci/hda/hda_codec.c | 4 +++-
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/sound/pci/hda/hda_codec.c b/sound/pci/hda/hda_codec.c
index 4c20277a6835..fb9497a0062a 100644
--- a/sound/pci/hda/hda_codec.c
+++ b/sound/pci/hda/hda_codec.c
@@ -338,8 +338,10 @@ int snd_hda_get_sub_nodes(struct hda_codec *codec, hda_nid_t nid,
 	unsigned int parm;

 	parm = snd_hda_param_read(codec, nid, AC_PAR_NODE_COUNT);
-	if (parm == -1)
+	if (parm == -1) {
+		*start_id = 0;
 		return 0;
+	}
 	*start_id = (parm >> 16) & 0x7fff;
 	return (int)(parm & 0x7fff);
 }
--
2.1.4