From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2016 08:07:47 +0000
Subject: [patch] kexec: potetially using uninitialized variable
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To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>, Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Cc: Dave Young <dyoung@redhat.com>, Xunlei Pang <xlpang@redhat.com>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>, Toshi Kani <toshi.kani@hpe.com>, Mimi Zohar <zohar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>, Minfei Huang <mnfhuang@gmail.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org

At the end of the function we check if "ret" has a negative error code,
but it seems possible that it is uninitialized.

Fixes: 12db5562e035 ('kexec: load and relocate purgatory at kernel load time')
Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>

diff --git a/kernel/kexec_file.c b/kernel/kexec_file.c
index 503bc2d..63d1af3 100644
--- a/kernel/kexec_file.c
+++ b/kernel/kexec_file.c
@@ -795,7 +795,7 @@ out:
 
 static int kexec_apply_relocations(struct kimage *image)
 {
-	int i, ret;
+	int i, ret = 0;
 	struct purgatory_info *pi = &image->purgatory_info;
 	Elf_Shdr *sechdrs = pi->sechdrs;