[Buildroot] [PATCH 2/4] package/libnss: fix build warning

Arnout Vandecappelle arnout at mind.be
Thu Oct 24 08:51:24 UTC 2019


 One more :-)

On 24/10/2019 10:50, Arnout Vandecappelle wrote:
> 
> 
> On 24/10/2019 10:47, Arnout Vandecappelle wrote:
>>
>>
>> On 23/10/2019 12:23, Giulio Benetti wrote:
>>> Add patch to fix build warning due to uninitialized variable.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Giulio Benetti <giulio.benetti at benettiengineering.com>
>>> ---
>>> https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1590678
>>> ---
>>>  ...ve-Wmaybe-uninitialized-warning-in-t.patch | 27 +++++++++++++++++++
>>>  1 file changed, 27 insertions(+)
>>>  create mode 100644 package/libnss/0004-Bug-1590678-Remove-Wmaybe-uninitialized-warning-in-t.patch
>>>
>>> diff --git a/package/libnss/0004-Bug-1590678-Remove-Wmaybe-uninitialized-warning-in-t.patch b/package/libnss/0004-Bug-1590678-Remove-Wmaybe-uninitialized-warning-in-t.patch
>>> new file mode 100644
>>> index 0000000000..956abeb4a5
>>> --- /dev/null
>>> +++ b/package/libnss/0004-Bug-1590678-Remove-Wmaybe-uninitialized-warning-in-t.patch
>>> @@ -0,0 +1,27 @@
>>> +From 24bcc8860310149da1524dbf25f3bc77f6476b11 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
>>> +From: Giulio Benetti <giulio.benetti at benettiengineering.com>
>>> +Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2019 11:58:12 +0200
>>> +Subject: [PATCH] Bug 1590678 - Remove -Wmaybe-uninitialized warning in
>>> + tls13esni.c
>>> +
>>> +Signed-off-by: Giulio Benetti <giulio.benetti at benettiengineering.com>
>>> +---
>>> + nss/lib/ssl/tls13esni.c | 2 +-
>>> + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>> +
>>> +diff --git a/nss/lib/ssl/tls13esni.c b/nss/lib/ssl/tls13esni.c
>>> +index 4d2e12d62..a7ce6f568 100644
>>> +--- a/nss/lib/ssl/tls13esni.c
>>> ++++ b/nss/lib/ssl/tls13esni.c
>>> +@@ -728,7 +728,7 @@ tls13_ServerDecryptEsniXtn(const sslSocket *ss, const PRUint8 *in, unsigned int
>>> + {
>>> +     sslReader rdr = SSL_READER(in, inLen);
>>> +     PRUint64 suite;
>>> +-    const ssl3CipherSuiteDef *suiteDef;
>>> ++    const ssl3CipherSuiteDef *suiteDef = NULL;
>>
>>  Although this looks OK at first sight, it's something that might be dangerous
>> (i.e. the wrong fix). Since this is a security package, I don't want to apply it
>> until upstream gives feedback.
> 
>  On second thought, since we don't enable -Werror in Buildroot, we don't need
> this patch AFAICS. So it's good that you reported it upstream, but we're not
> going to apply this patch. I've marked it as Rejected.

 If upstream decides that this really *is* an uninitialized variable reference
and not just a limitation of the compiler's analysis, it's a potential security
issue, so in that case please resubmit.

 Regards,
 Arnout



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