From ddbc719f99cf9aed6918cef98cb3475fd4fc4fa6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Alison Schofield <amsfield22@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 26 Jul 2016 20:17:43 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] tools: iio: iio_generic_buffer: initialize channel array
 pointer

Uninitialized channel pointer causes segmentation fault when we
call free(channel) during cleanup() with no channels initialized.
This happens when you exit early for usage errors.  Initialize
the pointer to NULL when it is declared.

Signed-off-by: Alison Schofield <amsfield22@gmail.com>
Cc: Daniel Baluta <daniel.baluta@gmail.com>
Tested-by: Gregor Boirie <gregor.boirie@parrot.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Cameron <jic23@kernel.org>
---
 tools/iio/iio_generic_buffer.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/tools/iio/iio_generic_buffer.c b/tools/iio/iio_generic_buffer.c
index 0e8a1f7a292d..ae68bf0e2d51 100644
--- a/tools/iio/iio_generic_buffer.c
+++ b/tools/iio/iio_generic_buffer.c
@@ -348,7 +348,7 @@ int main(int argc, char **argv)
 	int notrigger = 0;
 	char *dummy;
 
-	struct iio_channel_info *channels;
+	struct iio_channel_info *channels = NULL;
 
 	register_cleanup();
 
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